Is It Easier to Deceive Yourself?

The smarter you are, the easier it is to deceive you. Deception starts with you deceiving yourself. A really good thinker is wrong a ton of times because you're thinking about how one screw here is going to come loose and no one's going to be able to fix it. The primitive mind built the entire world that we see around us. But what you've got to understand is that most of your beliefs are wrong.