Every mall map has a “you are here” dot. Nobody can tell you where to go until you admit where you are.

Directions are useless without a starting point, and the starting point is the part people skip. Admitting you are behind, lost, or not as far along as you let on feels like losing ground in front of somebody. It is also the only thing that makes the advice afterwards usable.

Say one true sentence this week about where you actually are, to a teacher, a coach or a friend. How far behind you have fallen, or that you stopped understanding a class two weeks ago.