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Realised how Self Deception came into play today. Had a situation at work where my team members raised concerns on how they had to work till 4-5pm without lunch yesterday. Probing deeper, I realised they made a decision at 3pm to move on as if they eat lunch, they will start work at 4 and may have to stretch beyond normal working hours. Something which some are not willing to sacrifice.

Easy for external party to see why they might have created this problem of having to work on empty stomach. They may not realise it till someone point it out in a non-confrontable way.

Lessons always are learnt somehow. I am vexed over a few things like my next posting, my team’s constraints, my love life, money,etc recently. Taking a step back in the evening enable to make me see how I’m to blame for the current state of affairs. Really a case of self-deception where you may think everyone else is the problem. End of the day, we are always the one who makes the decision to make things turn out the way they turn into.

Can say "Blame who, Blame yourself lah", but I would rather say "Thank who, Thank youself lah"

Words from the Inverse Paranoid Lim.