{"id":4205,"date":"2012-08-03T08:39:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drjimtaylor.com\/2.0\/?p=4205"},"modified":"2012-08-03T08:39:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T15:39:11","slug":"businesssportspersonal-growth-a-little-self-deception-can-go-a-long-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/businesssportspersonal-growth-a-little-self-deception-can-go-a-long-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Business\/Sports\/Personal Growth: A Little Self-deception Can Go a Long Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research has shown that deceiving yourself, what is called &#8220;positive illusion&#8221; in psych-speak, can actually increase confidence, influence over others, and performance.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, self-deception that is too disconnected from reality will not work so well. But telling yourself that you are just a bit better than you actually are can go a long way.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390443343704577548973568243982.html?KEYWORDS=the+case+for+lying+to+yourself\">interesting article<\/a> from\u00a0The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research has shown that deceiving yourself, what is called &#8220;positive illusion&#8221; in psych-speak, can actually increase confidence, influence over others, and performance. Of course, self-deception that is too disconnected from reality will not work so well. But telling yourself that you are just a bit better than you actually are can go a long way. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1685,1518,1517],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-personal-growth","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}