reality distortion
Bending perceived truth
Reality distortion is the ability to convince others—and often oneself—that something improbable or false is true through sheer force of personality and conviction.
The term gained currency describing Steve Jobs's legendary capacity to bend perceptions and expectations: His reality distortion field made engineers believe impossible deadlines were achievable.
It suggests charisma powerful enough to override facts temporarily.
- illusionMisleading sensory impression
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- warpBend from true form
- manipulationUnderhanded control of others
mind games · charisma · gaslighting · propaganda · fake news · spin · hallucination · mirage · smoke and mirrors · brainwashing · matrix · blue pill · simulation · fantasy · dreamlike · hypnosis · Steve Jobs · persuasion
- Steve JobsSteve Jobs, Apple, iPhone, iPad, iPod
- self-deceptiondenial, delusion, wishful thinking, rationalization, willful blindness
- psychosishallucinations, psychosis, delusions, delusion, schizophrenia
- psychoanalysisFreud, id, ego, unconscious, Sigmund Freud
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Communicating only facts
candor · unvarnished truth · objective truth · veracity · straightforwardness
reality distortionlucidity
Clearness of mind
clear thinking · objectivity · groundedness · rationality · level-headedness
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