Reality is the beginning precept of personal growth. We mainly grow as humans by discovering new realities about ourselves and our world. You'll surely learn some crucial lessons regardless of how you live, but you are able to speed up your growth hugely by consciously looking for truth and intentionally rejecting untruth and denial. Actual personal growth is truthful growth. You can't make-believe. Your beginning commitment must be to expose and accept new realities, regardless of how hard or obnoxious the outcomes might be. You can't resolve issues if you don't accept that they are there. Once you align yourself with reality, your issues won't repair themselves immediately, but you'll be taking a crucial step in the correct direction.

If you deny your troubles, you reject reality. The lies you tell yourself breed more lies and you get disconnected from your real self, not living up to your potential. You aren't here to live this way. You're here to learn how to produce a life you choose. For the rest of this book, we'll have a look at reality. This will help you comprehend how to distinguish and accept what's real for you. These ideas may be fairly abstract, so your goal here is merely to acquaint yourself with the concepts.