Performing surgery is an exercise in pragmatism. You’ve assembled the available facts with diagnostics; each step in the operation leads to a finite list of options for the next; you select the best possible choice and move on. You do what can be done.

I’m generally a very pragmatic person. That which works, works. (Linus Torvalds)

Pragmatism doesn’t exclude vision or idealism. It just demands that your approach be practical. Vision sees the goal; pragmatism finds the achievable path. The two go hand in hand. After all, what use is vision if you don’t succeed in implementing it?

… interested in some inspiring tips on choosing pragmatism, and some exercises to get you started?