What we're going to cover in this podcast is the role rationalization plays in your decision making process. This is an extremely complex subject with many different layers. The definition we'll use for rationalization is: A self-deception that allows you to distort reality in order to justify an emotion, belief, or action that is inconsistent with your core values, beliefs, and goals in life.

If we were to boil this down to its essence, the definition we could use is: Making excuses for our beliefs or actions.

In the context of this discussion we'll consider rationalization as we use it in the process of forming a belief, or giving ourselves the "green light" to take an action, or to not take an action.