Vital Lies Simple Truths is a penetrating analysis of the ways in which we deceive ourselves. Daniel Goleman draws on evidence of all kinds
- from brain function to social dynamics
- to reveal how we must distort our most intimate relationships & our day-to-day lives by burying painful insights & memories. This self-deception is our means of psychological self-preservation the currency of survival in which society transacts. But although self-deception is sometimes benighn it can also be dangerous & life-diminishing. This important book both illuminates & raises challenging questions about a subject central to our psychological existence.