People need to read about Cognitive Distortions: that's the fancy pants term for "playing yourself", which is maintaining a negative or otherwise deceptive self

People need to read about Cognitive Distortions: that's the fancy pants term for "playing yourself", which is maintaining a negative or otherwise deceptive self conversation about what you are doing, thinking, and behaving. If you're self conversation is not honest, you're capable of literally anything, because your self deception is the vector you can be emotionally manipulated by irrational desires, the hypocritical values you may have been raised, or bad actors seeking to exploit others. All this can be avoided by seeking to audit one's own self conversation. If this sounds reasonable to you, I suggest you do a web search or ask ChatGPT about Dr. David Burns, the School Of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and the checklist of common Cognitive Distortions (common self lies). In little more than a half hour of research you can begin your own self honesty revolution. It is HUGE and it is PERSONAL REVOLUTION that will remake you entirely as a significantly more rational, adept and capable individual.