Entrepreneur and CEO Margaret Heffernan brings our attention to the dangerous human instinct of ignoring the most challenging aspects of our lives.

Whether it's a cheating spouse, a corrupt politician, or climate change, sometimes denial is easier than the truth.

The phrase 'willful blindness' has its origins as a legal concept, stating that you are responsible for a crime if you could have known about it but chose not to see it.

Many of us choose to shut our eyes when we know we will only see trouble upon opening them. But whether we like it or not, that trouble isn't going away.

Margaret Heffernan is an entrepreneur, CEO of five businesses, and writer on effective leadership and communication.

In Willful Blindness, Heffernan examines our human impulse to ignore the issues that make us uncomfortable and the danger this poses when the truth is crying out to be heard.