How do we Cheat Ourselves?

Question

I have this assignment and it asks How do we Cheat Ourselves?

Answer 1

well that is a very complex question there isn't really a simple answer but we can cheat oursleves by making the wrong choices, trying to be someone your not, wasting your time trying to impress others.....things like that.

Answer 2

By not being honest with ourselves and others, we close off our true selves. I have never been truly honest with my feelings because I was afraid to hurt others' feelings and of disappointing people. Simply put, I tried saying and doing what everyone else wanted and in turn I got to take the easy way out without much confrontation. In doing so, I cheated myself of truly feeling, truly loving, and blocked my way to acheiving real happiness, success, and love. However, everyone can change and I did this past summer. Now, I am making a lot of waves and many people are hurt and mad but I am happier being me and learning what I like and dislike. I don't wait for others to help me or hold my hand to experience life anymore; I just go do it.

Answer 3

We cheat ourselves when we start becoming slaves to our bad habits and compulsions. We make ourselves believe that we need things that we really don't. We don't realize that if we try hard enough, we have the ability to break free from our addictions and become truly free and complete. Addictions are not just drugs, but bad things disguised like good things -- like vanity, anger, hatred, compulsive shopping, obsession with money, power, etc.

Answer 4

By comparing ourselves to others and living a life full of guilt and remorse. When we use another's yard stick to measure our abilities, we cheat ourself because they might actually be using a ruler instead of our yard stick. ALso, guilt does not allow us to move on, we spend too much time in the past, worrying about something we cannot change. If we accept responsibility for our actions and move on, we can live life to it's fullest.

Answer 5

It is easier for a mad person to do this. and this is also the reason for you to study this.

we live in a world of make believed conception. so when we believed something to be true....we hold a mental fixation to it. for eg. in the law of atoms, if you hold an object to be true, then it is true and that is where you are faced with solid liquid gases, etc

by convincing youself that certain things are true and lie to yourself to the extend that it is no longer a false statement to you, then you have not only induce the state of mental stage of awareness that this is definitely true and all your body will then react to it. In this way, this is how people can defeat the lie detector and in the situation of some gurus, then the object is no longer a solid.

but then this is a very very very difficult situation for normal person as we tends to be able to differentiate between reality and falsehood. But in the case of a mentally disorder person, they are able to convince themselves to a stage of phychosis that what that is not real becomes true to them. they feel it to be true and react to it

Answer 6

sometimes we do this by re-playing mis-treatment of ourselves by others, especially what happened in our childhood. If it happened to us then, and made an impression, we might think it's "normal" to feel that way, or act that way.
Sometimes adults who don't take care of themselves, put themselves at risk, won't take care of their bodies or clothing properly, have known no other treatment as a child--they assume they have to live this way.
Many times people whose parents are emotionally detached from them will seek out similar love-partners, because they think this is a normal way to express love.

Answer 7

by telling ourselves things we know will never or are not true. Not correcting or discipling ourselves when we do wrong. Not getting the best education possible...ect.

Answer 8

Psychologically? When we don't try hard enough to live up to our potential. When we don't strive. When we take something as magnificant as a human brain and waist it on useless activities.

When we waist our lives, we cheat ourselves.

Answer 9

We cheat our self by asking how do we cheat ourselfs when you have a assignment how do we cheat ourselfs.

Answer 10

you cheat yourself when you cheat on a test b/c you learned nothing in the process