Potentially, the people responsible for deciding your salary.

Even without gamefication I am guilty of storing up commits on "productive" days because I am conscious I may not have the same output the next day.

> Potentially, the people responsible for deciding your salary.

Yikes, yeah I forget some people have that type of workplace that isn't necessarily result driven. If that is the case and does get someone escorted at least there's a chance they'll end up somewhere more engaging.

Assuming your question wasn't sarcasm. Literally everyone lie to themselves about one thing or another... Including me, and probably including you.

I don't understand how it is possible to lie to myself. It requires you to suspend disbelief and say to yourself that something did or didn't happen, that's something I cannot fathom.

Lying to yourself doesn't necessarily require suspension of belief entirely, but convincing yourself whatever you are doing is worth you doing it. Since it's hard (probably impossible) to know the object truth of if something is " right" or not. Then it becomes fairly easy to justify anything, im sure you've done this even if you don't know exactly how to admit it or don't think you're doing it consciouly.

> I don't understand how it is possible to lie to myself.

It’s called bias and its various types.

See House M.D. for details :-)