It has his character that did not assume that he knew it all. This allowed them to correct this misunderstanding and sell their toothpaste. He learned how the Chinese view teeth (hard, impenetrable).

Story of an executive of Proctor and Gamble who went to China and spent some time with them, working to understand them and how they thought.

“The people who see reality as their friend, however, do not assume they have a grasp on it.”.

Then, he built a church that had none of those reasons.” He did not assume or think or act as if he knew what reality was. “What he did, instead, was go door-to-door and ask people why they didn’t go to church.

Rich Warren’s example in starting a church.

But to get in step with reality, we must see it as it really is first.įrom Chapter 8 – What people in touch look like.

We can only make the universe we live in better by facing how it really is.

High achievers face reality and deal with it.

The only thing that is going to be real in the end is what is”

“For us to get results in the real world, we must be in touch with what is, not what we wish things were, or think things should be or are led by others to believe they are.

“Reality is always your friend, everything else is a fantasy.”.

In the kind of successful character we are talking about, the integrated whole character, a grasp of truth is always present and increasing. The reason is not that they are lying but that they are missing parts of reality that are important to making things work.

Yet there are a lot of honest, non-fudging people that are not reaching their potential.

Truth 101 = tell the truth and to give a representation of reality to others as best one understand it.

“The consequences of deceit are usually greater than the ones of truth.”.To hide truth when there are potential consequences is part of human nature and sadly one that usually makes us incur more negative consequences than if we had told the truth.It involves not fudging, even if it does not hurt someone. It includes the ability to be honest, even in difficult situation, esp. Being “oriented toward truth” concerns honesty, ethical behavior, and this is a foundation of it, but not the whole of it.For my full summary: Integrity-includes-being-oriented-toward-truth.doc Henry Cloud.Summary by David Barfield, January 2009. Davidįrom Integrity, the Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality by Dr. Below is a summary of two chapters on our orientation toward truth. I am getting a lot out of a book and will be summarizing it here. Those are a couple of the quotes hitting me from the book Integrity, the Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality by Dr. The reason is not that they are lying but that they are missing parts of reality that are important to making things work.” “T here are a lot of honest, non-fudging people that are not reaching their potential. “Reality is always your friend, everything else is a fantasy.”

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