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Is some self-delusion good for happiness? What do you want to know about yourself? What don't you want to know?
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Ah grasshopper, you are progressing well on your path to true enlightenment.
RA puts up these deep philosophical threads and i author ones with titles like: You Ever See Pigs Doin' It?
I don't think the article said you should be delusional to be happy. It just said that identifying why you are unhappy doesn't necessarily help anything.The last bit, about the man deciding to follow his passion for art, after realizing he'd gone into finance to please his father, seems to indicate that recognizing what you love and want to do CAN lead to action and therefore happiness. But you have to ACT on the knowledge.
Know yourself, and do what you love.
What it boiled down to, for me, was just accepting myself and being grateful. If I'm depressed, I make sure to stay busy. After a breakup I built a futon. It was metal and the instructions looked like a nuclear bomb schematic written in Chinese. It seemed impossible. It took me two whole days but when I was done I felt great and broke up with my analyst.I never had any success with shrinks. I always argued with them and they always wanted to drug me. I didn't feel like anti-depressants were right for me so I never took any. If I need to talk, I go to mentors.
We have to think we're right about our perceptions of the world and ourselves. These perceptions change as we smack up against feedback from the world we live in. Sometimes we're knocked on our asses, and we change. But no matter how much we change, we're still convinced that we're right about our current perceptions. Self-delusion seems a requirement for survival.
Eating your bread crusts gives you curly wavy hair. End of discussion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/hea...
Do you feel like you know yourself pretty well? In what ways do you think you've fooled yourself in the past, and what was it like, finding out the truth? What do you want to know about yourself, and what you might you be happy not considering or engaging in self-delusion?