Forbes features a list of 35 Questions That Will Change Your Life.

I haven't read them all. I can only tolerate so much change in my life. But number one is interesting:

"What are you pretending not to know? This was perhaps the most powerful question I was ever asked... All possibilities open up when we stop deceiving ourselves."

Ann Althouse reflected upon this phenomenon:

"I remember becoming aware... that I had many perceptions that felt as as if they belonged to another person. This other entity had a different vantage point, seemingly from above, looking on at everything, including at me, and the me that felt like me, the character who participated in life, somehow did not know all these things."

When you're self-deceiving,
seeing isn't believing.