According to Thomas Gilovich, “94% of university professors think they are better at their jobs than their colleagues.”
“25%
of college students believe they are in the top 1% in terms of their ability to
get along with others.”
“70% of college students think they are above
average in leadership ability. Only 2% think they are below average.”
Michael Novak has rightly said, “Our capacity for
self- deceit has no known limits.”
Self-deception is the process or fact of
misleading ourselves to accept claims about ourselves as true or valid when
they are false or invalid. Self-deception,
in short, is a way we justify false beliefs about ourselves to ourselves. It is
like trying to show ourselves a picture which we like to believe it exists.
Let’s
take an example here of a boy named Raju. Raju is a laid back and lazy boy. Every
day he gets late to reach his college. The reason is he cannot get up on time. Every
day he decides to keep an alarm at 6 in morning but every day he puts off his
alarm and sleeps until 7. This keeps on repeating every day and each day, he
tries to convince himself, no matter what, from tomorrow he will just wake up
on time. However, that tomorrow never comes.
Does
this sound familiar to you?
