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Rationalizing dims caution lights, arrogance blurs boundaries, desperation overrides good sense.
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…a high degree of consistency is normally associated with personal and intellectual strength. It is the heart of logic, rationality, stability, and honesty.
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Rationalization helps us give reasons for our behaviors, even when those reasons might have been designed by others.
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Escalation of commitment happens because we’re rationalizing creatures, constantly searching for self-justifications for our prior beliefs as a way to soothe our egos, shield our images, and validate our past decisions.
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We have all, at some time, rationalized our position or our place and continued doing exactly what we were doing.
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…perhaps because of our aversion to quitting, we tend to rationalize away the clues contained in the present that would allow us to see how bad things really are.
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…the quest for group cohesion can spawn shared illusions, rationalizations, and denial.
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No matter how brutal those facts may be, ignoring, dismissing, rationalizing, or twisting them will not make them less so.
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