{"product_id":"reality-matters-what-you-owe-yourself-richard-hatch-hardcover","title":"Reality Matters: What You Owe Yourself -- Richard Hatch, Hardcover","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat if everything you were taught was built on ground that isn't there?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost of what you believe, you were handed as a child - by people who never looked down to see whether the ground beneath their certainty was actually there. \u003cem\u003eReality Matters\u003c\/em\u003e is an invitation, and a provocation, to look down now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this unflinching book, Richard Hatch turns a single ruthless question on the things we are taught never to question - our bodies, our gods, our governments, our deaths. Not \u003cem\u003edoes this feel true?\u003c\/em\u003e but \u003cem\u003eis it actually true?\u003c\/em\u003e What follows is not comfortable. It was never meant to be. Comfort, he argues, is precisely what our institutions sell us in place of what is real.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou may know Richard Hatch as the original winner of \u003cem\u003eSurvivor\u003c\/em\u003e - the man tens of millions watched win the first season of the show that reshaped television. What they don't know is the man who wrote this book: someone whose most meaningful work has taken place far from any camera, forged over two decades of paying a specific, personal price for the simple act of living honestly. He writes not from the safety of theory but from hard-won experience, with the same clear-eyed attention to what is actually there that once made him impossible to beat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is not a demolition. On the other side of the discomfort is something those institutions are built to obscure, and something we are conditioned to avoid: ourselves, accurately seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is not a small thing. That is, in fact, everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Richard Hatch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Deeper Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.26 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9\" H x 6\" L x 0.81\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9798995775621\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67450029080880,"sku":"9798995775621","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9798995775621.jpg?v=1785832252","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/reality-matters-what-you-owe-yourself-richard-hatch-hardcover","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}