There’s the real world and there are ideas and theories.

There’s engaging in actual actions in the real world — and there’s engaging in ideologies, in theoretical explorations and fantasies.

 

If you are serious about the real-world outcomes — you want to engage in real-world actions, receive real-world feedback, and prepare real-world response.

 

What you choose to specialise in is paramount. You can specialise in real-world problems and solutions. Or you can specialise in made-up puzzles and games.

Then you can benefit from the real-world outcomes— or from the fantasy-world perks.

 

Understanding chess strategies is great as long as you live on the chessboard.

Dexterous skills with piano are tremendous if you love piano music.

Western philosophy is such an entertaining language game. A lofty hobby!

You make your choices.

 

You may perhaps think you picked a “real-world field” — but if you don’t tackle it in real life — it’s as detached as any theory (fantasy books too have elements from the real world).

Obviously your stupid theories pertain to reality. That’s what inspired you in the first place.

It’s how you relate your ideas, your conclusions, your interferences — to the REAL world — is what makes the difference between fantasy and reality. Real-world outcomes and fantasy-outcomes.

 

Feedback is fundamental.

Random data is just noise.

Theories not grounded on empirical observations are just noise.

Conclusions, laws not tested against the real world are just nonsense.

You need high quality feedback loop to arrive at something substantial.

 

Don’t pick a field which you can’t penetrate with a sensible feedback loop, trial and error, testing.

If you can’t test it in real life — then you will resort to testing it in your mind. You will acquire fantasy results which should grant you fantasy benefits.

Pick a field which you can explore in real life. Experiment. The more experiments can you conduct the better. The more iterated the feedback loop the better.

 

There is endless exploration possible. There are countless experiments to be conducted. Not merely “scientific” but in every domain of life.

We often reach the limit of what can be discovered in a given field. It is then that we indulge in over-complicating, in theoretical fantasies, in artificial knowledge-creation.

It is as stupid and unscientific as it is dangerous.

Once the feedback no longer supplies new information, new question, new inspiration — change the field immediately, or else expand it, but in the REAL world.

 

Real-world treasures await those willing to explore the real-world mysteries.