passion vs pragmatism, which to pursue? give examples please! thanks.?

Question

examples may span from everyday work to life to just mucking around doing nothing.

Answer 1

If you have no fear you will choose passion. Otherwise you will join the rest of us in pragmatism.

Answer 2

you need both. passion to do it, pragmatism to make it work.
for example you have a passion to fly but having no wings you decide (pragmatically) to learn to fly an airplane. you adjust your passion so you can make it come true. you are dying to have a big farm but you live in a tiny apartment and your job, family, husband are there and you really know you can't or don't want to move.
the pragmatic part is you start an urban window garden which you love and later lead a group of urban gardeners. reality adjusts what is possible, you can have a slightly adjusted dream come true.
you want to be a singing star but your singing sucks and you aren't going to invest the time to get good enough to be famous. so you sing karaoke on wed nites at a local bar and get that feeling you wanted.

Answer 3

Pursuing pragmatism IS pursuing passion.

Pragmatism is sacrificing all other values to the value of 'what works' - what results in a successful outcome.

What is a successful outcome? It is an outcome that satisfies desires, an outcome that provides what passion demands.

Answer 4

Well, in life balance is essential. There is a story: There were some weeds growing under tall grass. One of the weed said to others I want to look beyond. The others advised him not to do so. The little weed prayed and prayed until it grew above the grass and could see 'beyond.' Just then a gust of wind sliced it and it lay on the ground. All its companions said, " See, what did we tell you?" The dying weed said " Yes, but you did not see what I saw?"

There is always an opportunity cost in our actions. Being aware and balancing them is the key in my opinion.

Answer 5

with passion, sucess lies within the paradise