“PRAGMATIC” gets bad reputation

Some think it’s too cold, too practical, too calculated, too sterile,

Some think it’s not creative, not imaginative, not interesting

Nonsense

 

When you want to be creative — you’re creative

When you want to be fanciful — you’re fanciful

When you want to have fun — you have fun

When you want to EXPLORE — you explore

BUT

When you want to solve a problem — you solve the fucking problem

 

When you want to solve a problem — you solve the problem

Of COURSE you’re pragmatic

You have real problems — you go find some real solutions

You need a tool — you pick that tool and use it

You need information — you go find it

You need help — you go ask for help

Of course you’re pragmatic

 

Now,

Of course EXPLORING makes you stumble upon solutions, improvements, innovations

Of course you want to be creative and NOT merely solve the problem once — but solve it forever — or solve it beautifully — or solve it at scale

And of course you don’t just want to view the world as merely “solving problems” — you want to have fun with it, fun while you’re at it

 

but

It’s easy to lose sight of the original reason why you started doing something in the first place

Now you’re enjoying yourself playing this fun game,

You had a problem to solve once: money-problem, success-problem, purpose-problem, love-problem, self-worth-problem, health-problem, joy-problem, spirit-problem — and you set about solving that problem…

…and perhaps you even solved it, or perhaps you didn’t — but you got so invested in that GAME — that now you can’t stop playing…

money-game, success-game, meaning-game, love-game, self-worth-game, health-game, happiness-game, spirituality-game…

 

now you play those games,

and despise the “pragmatic”,

because pragmatism would RUIN your game

because it would make you realise that you playing it is pointless, or ineffective,

that you don’t even know why you’re doing it, actually

that really you’re only doing it as a distraction

that really you’re only doing it out of habit

that really you’re only doing it now because DOING AND NOT GETTING IT became part of your identity

that you say you want the thing but you only want the APPEARANCE

 

I do want you to have fun

AND be creative, inspired, enthusiastic

But i want you to be PRAGMATIC, in the same time

I want you to remember WHY you’re doing it

I want you to have GOALS and go HARD after them

Not because those goals are even so important,

But because they keep your SELF-DELUSION at bay

REAL GOALS requiring REAL OUTCOMES preclude you from DELUDING YOURSELF

Because you can’t fake real outcomes

 

So go get some REAL WORLD OUTCOMES

Set about it PRAGMATICALLY — like a PRO

And as you’re at it : THEN HAVE FUN

And THEN be creative

But first be PRAGMATIC

In truth: ALTERNATE the two

Go EXTREMELY PURPOSEFULLY after your goals,

After that EXPLORE some, TRY things, do WHATEVER YOU WANT, be FREE,

Then AGAIN set a goal and fucking KILL it

Then again try some things

Oh and then set some goal which requires unclear solutions,

Break it down to chunks,

Those you can solve — solve PRAGMATICALLY

Those you can’t solve — TINKER with. PLAY WITH. EXPERIMENT. EXPLORE.

This is how you reconcile these two

 

And you must NEVER CONFUSE THE TWO!!!

When you’re exploring — please be exploring

When you’re pragmatic — you’re fucking pragmatic

And when you’re both exploring AND being pragmatic — you’re WELL AWARE where you’re being pragmatic, where you’re being creative — and how you use the two together

But you NEVER distract yourself from the REAL PROBLEM, REAL REASON, REAL POINT

And you LOVE being pragmatic

Because you’re interested in real outcomes

Interested in real outcomes — from this short real life