Being that Truman was born on the show everything was normal to him. As Truman lived out his life, which seemed very real to him, there was no way to find out that it was all a lie, because he did not know any better. It was always Truman’s dream to explore the world, but the corporation that “adopted” him always flattened his dream without him realizing it was their fault. That is the sole reason the show was able to go on for as long as it …show more content…
He stresses the idea of broadening your views and social levels, to truly look through situations as if you were someone else (Bain, 66). He feels so strongly about this to say that if you do not branch out you may not ever genuinely breach your mental wall. Bain goes even deeper when proclaiming students, and people in general, need to realize their failures and mistakes in order to learn from them and see things from other perspectives (Bain, 68 & 69).
Approaching my own mental barrier was an easy one for me. Education had set me free from myself junior year of high school. It hit me in the middle of my physics class, when the motion, circuit, and friction equations all made complete sense to me. All these equations we learned that year applied to everything we do in life. Whether it was brushing your teeth or throwing a ball, it is all physics. Knowing all of that really opened up my mind and that class became no longer school to me but something I wanted to learn. That year was the time I figured out that being an engineer is a high