But don´t feel too angry with your vain brain for shielding you from the truth. There is in fact a category of people who get unusually close to the truth about themselves and the world. Their self-perceptions are more balanced, they assign responsibility for succes and failure more evenhandedly, and their predicitions for the future are more realistic. These people are living testimony to the dangers of self-knowledge. They are the clinically depressed.
Ur boken a mind of its own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives av Cordelia Fine.
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