What a beautiful thing it would be to build within yourself the ability to switch between modes at will.
We can (and should!) switch from an open and creative mode-where you can play with ideas and nothing must make sense-to a more closed mode where the work gets done and those crazy ideas you came up with start to take shape and become real.
To find more happiness in our work and the motivation to keep pouring away at it, we must be able to do the same thing with reality and optimism.
We must be able to be unrealistically optimistic about chasing that lofty dream or goal (the ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do) while having a second mode where we understand that even if the goal doesn’t fully come to pass, we got pretty close and we're still working at it.
Working toward a crazy ambition while still seeing things as they genuinely are.
They should invent a word for that.