Practicality doesn’t mean being cunning, deceptive, or shrewd. Practicality is a doing that is born out of understanding; you understand something and then action happens. There is a deep, intelligent understanding which immediately translates into action. This is really what practicality is about.
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Acharya Prashant: Alok is asking that what one should do to be a good engineer. I will elaborate it, “What does one should do to be good at anything?” Now the question means that what does it mean to have a good life. He is wondering that whether one has to be practical or theoretical. He seems inclined towards being practical, let’s understand this.
Practical is related to practise. To practise something is to do it, ‘to practise is to do.’
Now, doing can happen out of two sources, two reasons:
The first- the force of habit, the force of conditioning from where action happens.
The second is- the force of intelligence, when you understand something then it becomes very simple to do it. Understanding and doing become parallel, concurrent, instantaneous. There remains no gap between understanding and doing.
