Rationalization
I was going to post about one's ability to rationalize, and how I felt that if one finds the need to do so, to rationalize and rationalize again after making a choice, that perhaps the choice wasn't the correct one in the first place.
And then I thought that someone out there, a writer much better and more profound than myself, had to have spoken about rationalization before.
Sure enough I could find a quote. In fact, the one I liked best is from Ayn Rand (something I find so ironic for many reasons that I won't go into here): “Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.”
Go think about that for a bit.
And then I thought that someone out there, a writer much better and more profound than myself, had to have spoken about rationalization before.
Sure enough I could find a quote. In fact, the one I liked best is from Ayn Rand (something I find so ironic for many reasons that I won't go into here): “Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.”
Go think about that for a bit.
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