The Danger of Denial (and how to escape it)

Nicky Cullen
4 min readJun 23, 2022
Photo by Lucas van Oort on Unsplash

enial certainly has its place. In the short term, it can be beneficial to ignore a problem because the implications of facing said problem or conflict are too overwhelming.

But, as Professor Robert Sipolsky says, there’s a price to be paid down the road when denial becomes habitual — one that often comes with significant interest.

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