Articulated Lie
Lying to others makes sense. It can save us reputation or accountability. If someone asks you how they're looking today, they're probably not expecting an honest answer.
But lying to yourself is a rather different jigsaw altogether.
Having spent much of my day today scrolling social media, while having never added it into my schedule, I was trying to figure out what might've been at work. I discovered that the very act of research needed me to articulate the situation, and that very articulation was serving as a mechanism of sense making.
For example, "I want to become the best cook in the world so I spent all my day driving today" doesn't really work as a sentence.
Awareness of lying needs us to know what the truth is. But the truth isn't ever brought to the forefront if the lie is never articulated. When trying to say something out loud, you have to justify why you did something and why you didn't. And that creates a story. This story becomes our truth. And once we know the truth, we know when we might be lying to ourselves.
I find current day's AI chatbots can come in real handy with prompting you to articulate yourself, and in doing so help you find your own truth. Recommended.