…as historical barriers to human growth, performance, and quality of life are reduced or disappear. Democratization will progressively make everything available to everyone. Education, information, access to markets, capital, and opportunity that were the historical province of the elite will become universal. Birth limitations such as life expectancy and inherited minds and bodies will be exceeded. Distance will matter little if at all in your career, business, relationships, or lifestyle. You can have a far more productive and meaningful life than past generations as you live decades longer with expanded intellectual and physical capacity. Career and lifestyle choices and the work you do will be vastly different and better. Relationships will become more important and expansive but different and require new skills. You will redefine success and meaning as barriers to your potential fall.

You must understand what is coming and act now to prepare and adapt if you are to reap its benefits. Ignoring the coming changes, resisting, or procrastinating will cause you to miss opportunities, fall behind, and suffer as many people did in prior periods of great change. The choice is yours to make.

Your enemy is the unfortunate human quality of procrastination. Most people avoid decisions or actions until forced to make them. They avoid preparing for the future because it makes them anxious, the present is comfortable, and they believe pre-emptive action is futile. Immediate painless action is avoided despite compelling evidence of dire consequences from delay. The procrastination mindset has always been a bad idea but becomes manifestly self-destructive in the New Reality.

Most people fail to develop a habit of saving and investing 10% of earnings when they are young even though it is painless, expands career and lifestyle options, and protects against poverty in old age. Most people fail to develop a habit of a healthy lifestyle when young even though they will immediately feel better and more energetic and prevent decades of disability and poor health. Both are habits easily formed in 3-12 months and avoid needless suffering. Both exemplify human beings performing far below their innate potential and there are many other examples. New Reality consequences will be a wasted opportunity to live better, wiser, and more meaningful lives than people have ever lived.

Ben Lytle has been routinely ahead of the curve in his career as an entrepreneur, CEO, and investor and in how he has chosen to live. For several years, he has been paying close attention to the converging forces of change that few people have recognized. Ben makes a compelling argument in this first book that this convergence will reshape life as we know it and every human being as they know themselves today. He makes the case that life and people will emerge better in the end but that there will be turbulent times, difficult decisions, and rough sledding on the way, particularly for those who are unprepared.