Do You Lie to Yourself About Your Losses Before You Lie to Anyone Else?

[DublinDegen]

the documentation that feels like evidence even when the documentation is itself a product of the same process whose honesty is in question...

that's the final form of it...

the lie that has generated its own supporting materials...

the self-deception that has been thorough enough to also deceive the record...

spent years thinking the problem was that i didn't keep records...

if i'd kept records i'd have known the truth...

reading this thread: the records would have been kept by the same person doing the same accounting...

the records would have been honest about the facts and dishonest about the frame the facts were placed in...

same as the internal accounting that didn't have records...

just more elaborate...

 

[FadeThePublic]

The records as more elaborate self-deception rather than as honest accounting.

Uncomfortable conclusion for everyone in this thread who keeps detailed records as their primary evidence of analytical discipline.

The record is only as honest as the person who keeps it.

The person keeping the record has a strong and consistent motivation to keep it in ways that produce a favorable self-description.

The record doesn't solve the problem.

The record requires the same honesty to interpret correctly that the unrecorded version requires to think about correctly.

The medium changes.

The motivation doesn't.