I fell silent under her stony glare. I tried to keep going, but I couldn't. Blight had the opposite of a reality distortion field. A reality assertion field.

Small lies are essential. They create your reality distortion field. They are a necessary part of being an entrepreneur. But if you start believing your own hype, you won't survive.

Mr. Jobs used his famous reality distortion field to bend the news media and investors and everyone else to his will.

By propagating a "reality distortion field"—that is, mesmerizing potential employees, investors, and strategic partners so they focus on a startup's world-changing potential rather than on its real-world risks—overconfident and charismatic founders in particular are able to persuade people to commit resources under terms favorable to their new venture.

At present we sometimes experience what can be interpreted as a "reality distortion field" built upon arguments that have been developed by the innovators and early adopters within the sustainability movement.

If you're on social media at all, and follow many news sources, you're bombarded with stories of other people's successes […] This generates a "Reality Distortion Field" in which everyone else appears to experience 95% success and 5% struggle.

If your work takes you regularly into the world's boardrooms and C-suites, it really is hard to miss the reality distortion fields such places generate.

[W]e operate on a generalized, distorted, and incomplete model of reality. The most accurate way to describe our mind is as a reality distortion field.

Reality distortion field

Meaning

Noun