Delusion and Peak Performance

Mental Strength Tip #148

Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!

Personal development, positive attitude and will power is essential in reaching peak performance.

Peak performance is doing the absolute best when you must.  It’s about digging deep and having the courage to do what others won’t.   Personal development is about know how to full use all of your four personal resources; physical, emotional, spiritual and mental.

The mental aspect of personal development requires mental strength and mindset of empowering beliefs that will instill the feeling of self-empowerment.

Reaching your personal goals, achieving personal success and exceeding your human potential starts in your mind…and finishes with taking inspired and massive action.

This is one in a series of virtual personal coaching and mental strength tips to help kick-start your week.  It is intended to create self-empowerment and inspire you to take action so that you can reach your personal goals and personal success.

I take one mental strength tips and run though a brief overview of it, then ask some very direct coaching questions.  The intention of this virtual personal coaching session is for you to write and answer these questions in your success journal and then reflect on them to gain insight on yourself, your dreams and what’s holding you back.

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Objective of this Mental Strength Tip:

To make you aware of the disastrous effect that self-delusion can have on achieving peak performance.

Let’s Get Started:

Self-delusion, also known as lying to yourself or Self-deception.  It is the process of denying or rationalizing away the relevance, significance, or importance of opposing evidence and logical argument. Self-deception involves convincing oneself of a truth (or lack of truth) so that one does not reveal any self-knowledge of the deception.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

• How has delusional thinking affected your success?
• How has delusional thinking affected your persona life?
• How does delusional thinking hold people back?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Delusion

• Only the mentally ill delude themselves.
• I always think in terms of objective reality.
• Delusion has nothing to do with my success or personal life.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Delusion

• Staying in objective reality is on the cornerstones of peak performance.
• Self-delusion can creep in at any time.
• Delusion is a trap anyone can fall into.

Outrageous Questions:

• What percentage of the time are you deluding yourself in your quest of your goals?
• If you were less delusion would you be able to obtain peak performance?
• Why do people delude themselves?

Reflective Questions:

• Who is the most delusional person you’ve ever known?
• Are you capable of looking at your goals and results and objectively evaluate them?
• What are your three greatest strength and weaknesses?
  • What percent of delusional thinking is you are to this question?

Mental Strength Coaching:

The average person mindset believes it’s always operating in objective reality.  The average person’s thinks delusion is someone else’s problem.

Like many mental strength tips, this have has to be reviewed over and over again.  Be patient with yourself.

Final Thought:

Self-deception calls into question the nature of the individual, specifically in a psychological context and the nature of “self”. Irrationality is the foundation upon which the argued paradoxes of self-deception stem, and it is argued that not everyone has the “special talents” and capacities for self-deception.

However, rationalization is influenced by a myriad of factors, including socialization, personal biases, fear, and cognitive repression. Such rationalization can be manipulated in both positive and negative fashions; convincing one to perceive a negative situation optimistically and vice versa. In contrast, rationalization alone cannot effectively clarify the dynamics of self-deception, as reason is just one adaptive form mental processes can take.

It can moreover be argued that current psychology’s attempts to study processes, mechanism, and functions of self-deception often suffer from inadequate explications of the very concept of self-deception, and that the concept of rationality at work in such studies is not unproblematic either. In effect, such studies perhaps do not even succeed in showing that the phenomenon exists at all.

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