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Adam Mysock
A Frail Attempt

2018

$3,500
£2,704.36
€3,126.49
CA$4,945.75
A$5,546.99
CHF 2,904.87
MX$67,401.35
NOK 36,887.03
SEK 34,971.50
DKK 23,337.63

About the Item

Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, 1484-86 We desire attention, but no one likes a show-off. So, we’ve sharpened our ability to practice false modesty. We pretend to cover ourselves but rehearse the bare minimum efforts in order to keep people engaged – just as Venus covers herself without hiding much. This type of lying allows us to maintain an optimistic, internal conception of our own morality and humility, while publicly producing the opposite result. Outward gestures of lying allow us to construct psychological protections against our ability to recognize undesirable traits within ourselves.

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