The Dangers of Lying to Oneself

Here is an interesting blog entry written by Danny Choo, an entrepreneur and a popular figure relating to Japanese culture via the Web.  The article is best summarized by Danny himself:

To summarize, folks in the Comfort Zone lie to themselves to make them feel better about their situation. Steady income to fulfill the basic human needs is indeed important but there is something more important in life - to seek and live ones passion. Many folks in the Comfort Zone know what their passion is but end up not living it - until its too late. Continuing to lie to oneself will mean that you end up becoming the person that you didn't want to become.

Trust is an important thing in life.  In the article, Danny trusted and defended a former employee of his company, but ended up being betrayed by this employee and Danny woke up to realize that one bad apple has been spoiling the whole basket (his whole team).

This article echoes me in many ways.  At some point, you begin to wonder if what you have been doing could make you into a person you don't want to become.  At the same time, it becomes more difficult for people to trust each other.  Sometimes I wonder if having more knowledge have anything to do with trusting people and self realization.