“The prideful, rational mind, comfortable with its certainty, enamoured of its own brilliance, is easily tempted to ignore error, and to sweep dirt under the rug. Literary, existential philosophers, beginning with Søren Kierkegaard, conceived of this mode of Being as “inauthentic.†An inauthentic person continues to perceive and act in ways his own experience has demonstrated false. Peterson, Jordan B.. 12 Rules for Life (p. 211). Random House of Canada. Kindle Edition. ”
