You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.   Jodi Picoult Ah self-deception.  We are good at it aren't we?  We allow ourselves to fool ourselves! We choose to be blinded to things that we need to improve on or be healed from.  We choose to muffle our hearing to the things that others see in us that could be, should be, changed.  We choose to raise walls and build fortresses around ourselves so that others are blocked from speaking truth into our lives.  We let sinful pride be our mode of operation when someone raises a concern or presents a valid criticism.  And in our self-deception the one we hurt the very most is ourselves.  We delay our character development (You never quit developing character btw, it is a lifelong process.  You have not arrived much as you might like to think so.) and any healing we need to experience when we allow ourselves to be fooled into thinking...