Fooling Our Sense Of Morality
- Self-deception ensures that we can continue to see ourselves as good people, even when our actions would suggest otherwise
- This could be relevant to financial advisors, but also in private healthcare.
- The need to argue a point makes us think we're smarter than we are, research shows.
- Delusions of grandeur can be the cause of much of the political polarisation we see today.
- We can fool ourselves into believing things that are true even if there is evidence to the contrary.
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