Learning to accept defeat against reality
The piece opens with
The smarter someone is, the more they can deceive themselves
Their wordsThe smarter we are, the more creative we can get at coming up with those self-deceivingly compelling rationalizations for why, actually, in this one case, the world is not what it appears
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