Managing reality vs managing truth

What is real can be measured, which leads to greater and greater efficiencies, whereas what is true is a bit too mystical and nearly impossible to measure. You can only manage reality, you cannot manage the truth.

This Reality vs Truth duel is in fact central to the first Star Wars trilogy (A New Hope, etc.).

Darth Vader totally focused on Reality, whereas the young Luke Skywalker focused on Truth. ("Trust your feeling Luke," Obi-Wan would whisper to him).

I guess the success secret here is to learn to manage and leverage both reality and truth.

You manage reality when you do everything in your power to gather information about what is going on in your industry or profession.

You manage truth when you do everything in your power to learn more about your passion, your talent and your sense of purpose.

Obviously, managing truth is much harder to do. However, as we have seen with the great men and women in history, being intimately connected to one's talent, passion and purpose enables one to often rise above the reality of the times and to make a distinct mark on history.

Here are names of a few great human beings who did just that: Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Pope John Paul II, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, etc.

They were all intimately acquainted with the reality of their times, yet they used their unique talent, passion and moral purpose to transform their own lives and the lives of millions of other people.