Why Is Truth Really Important?

[SimpleGuy]

How do I realize, how do I understand that the truth is really important and that it needs to be put first? I just really don't understand why Leo values truth so highly. I feel that my number 1 value is not really truth but having a purpose in life. Can you give me some questions to think about or exercises so that I can figure it out for myself? Please, I don`t want to hear god and infinity mumbo-jumbo. I`m really not at this point of life where spirituality is priority for me.

Looking for any advice

[Cred]

autistic people tend to have truth as their highest value, non-adhd people tend to have meaning as their highest value

[integral]

58 minutes ago, SimpleGuy said:

How do I realize, how do I understand that the truth is really important and that it needs to be put first? I just really don't understand why Leo values truth so highly. I feel that my number 1 value is not really truth but having a purpose in life. Can you give me some questions to think about or exercises so that I can figure it out for myself? Please, I don`t want to hear god and infinity mumbo-jumbo. I`m really not at this point of life where spirituality is priority for me.

Looking for any advice

He made a three hour video on the topic. Did you watch it?

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AI- Response:

Leo's central claim isn't really about God or infinity. It's simpler than that. Whatever you value most — purpose, love, family, success — that thing can only serve you well if your understanding of it is accurate. If your map of reality is wrong, you'll chase a distorted version of what you want and wonder why it doesn't satisfy you. Truth isn't competing with purpose. Truth is the quality control on purpose.

You say your number one value is having a purpose. Okay — but what if the purpose you've chosen is based on a misunderstanding of yourself, or of what actually matters to you? What if you're pursuing it for reasons you haven't examined? That's where truth becomes relevant. Not as a replacement for purpose, but as the thing that ensures your purpose is actually yours and not borrowed, performative, or built on avoidance.

Questions to sit with (not answer quickly — journal on these over days):

"If I found out tomorrow that my current sense of purpose was based on a false assumption about myself or the world, would I want to know? Or would I prefer to keep going?" — Your honest answer to this tells you a lot about where truth actually sits in your hierarchy.

"What am I afraid might be true about my life, my work, or my relationships that I haven't looked at closely?" — Whatever you're avoiding looking at is exactly where truth-as-a-value would make a difference.

"Have I ever held a belief or pursued a goal for years, then realized it was wrong? What did that cost me? What would have been different if I'd questioned it sooner?" — This makes the cost of not caring about truth concrete and personal.

"When I imagine 'having a purpose,' what does that actually look like day to day? Am I pursuing the reality of it, or a fantasy of how it would feel?" — This is where purpose and truth intersect directly.

"Who in my life benefits from me NOT examining my beliefs and choices too closely?" — Sometimes we avoid truth because it would disrupt relationships, careers, or identities we're attached to.

A practical exercise:

Pick one area of your life where things aren't working the way you want — could be business, health, a relationship, finances, anything. Write down what you believe is causing the problem. Then, deliberately try to argue against your own explanation. Try to prove yourself wrong. See what comes up. If you notice resistance — a feeling of "I don't want to go there" — that resistance is the exact thing Leo is talking about. Not in some cosmic sense. Just in the sense that your mind is protecting a comfortable story at the expense of seeing what's actually happening.

The question isn't really "should truth be my number one value?" The question is: "Am I willing to find out that what I currently believe about my purpose, my situation, or myself might be wrong — and adjust accordingly?" If yes, truth is already operating as a high value for you whether you name it that way or not. If no, it's worth asking what you're protecting and why.

 

Edited 6 hours ago by integral

[UnbornTao]

It's really not. Importance is about you.

But it turns out that it is what's true.

Edited 21 minutes ago by UnbornTao

[bazera]

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Why Is Truth Really Important?

Because it's true.

But that conflicts with self-agenda, because whatever is true, might not be okay with you.

That's where spirituality comes into play. 

Edited 6 hours ago by bazera

[SimpleGuy]

2 hours ago, integral said:

He made a three hour video on the topic. Did you watch it?

Yes I did. Thanks

[Ramasta9]

Any question you have in life, isn't the truth the most valuable answer? So even the purpose of life, isn't the true purpose of most value? So how can you find your true purpose if you don't know your truth? You see the dilemma here? everything leads / points back to truth, everything in your entire existence is conscious or subconscious seeking / finding the truth or true nature of things or true self. Knowingly or unknowing, its automatically happening and nothing you can do about it but surrender to the current of creation. Resistance to the natural self is resistance to truth. Truth is primary, everything else is secondary, even when you think its not.

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Ramasta9

[Oeaohoo]

Truth is important because it is the nature of reality. If you are not living in accord with the truth, you are living in delusion and fantasy.

Also, lies corrode the soul...

Edited 1 hour ago by Oeaohoo

[AerisVahnEphelia]

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[yetineti]

When you understand that nothing exists but Truth—you can either value it or curse everything you know.