Is There Some Virtue in Having a Deluded State?

Is there some virtue in having a deluded state? I wouldn't say go for delusions I would say go with coping mechanisms of another kind and they can include things like not focusing on all the time. If you think that your life is better than it is it actually comes a bit better than it otherwise would have been even if it doesn't become as good as you think it is. You need to be very cautious that in the process you're not going to make them a lot worse for other people. There's a sort of interesting tension in writing about why our lives lack meaning, he says.