On Combating Idealism
3 min readAug 1, 2021
How do I know when I’m being idealistic?
And no, I don’t just mean in terms of setting goals; I mean being idealistic about my relationships with people, with my worldview, idealistic about wanting a specific experience coming out of college.
I don’t necessarily think that idealism can be bad. But I do interchange being idealistic with being optimistic. With optimism…