Mistaking the Signal for the Problem — Part 2: Being the Accomplice

In the first part of this series, we explored how we often lie to ourselves by treating symptoms as the problem itself—using "crutches" to avoid the complex, mentally draining work of addressing what lies upstream. But this mechanism doesn't stop at our own doorstep. If we are prone to misinterpreting our own signals, we are just as likely to become accomplices to the lies of others. When someone…