"In any realm of life—whether academic, social, business, or political—the only way to succeed is to take a practical, rather than an idealistic, point of view. Pragmatic behavior guarantees survival, whereas idealistic views tend to be superceded by simpler, more immediate options."

Ever-wondering, why US has the best renowned University in the academic realm? The answer lies in their pragmatic approach. For century-long, US-educational based system has outlined the different mainstream students to be independent, creative, critical thinking and the most upfront emphasize is the on-hand experience in the field of exploration. Taking the Go-Cart competition would best to describe. Each year, Mechanical faculty from amongst the University authorities would send out their best craftsmanship result by students for competition. Each student not only undertakes the analysis on Mechanical Stress, outsource the material, but also to the late-stage of assembly, testing and evaluation of their Go-Cart performance. Since then it would spur the students’ interest to participate actively in mini-group projects but also translating the theoretical formula into the realistic and workable project as a whole.

Neither, a caliber political leader should deal with his diplomacy in idealistic manner but in the pragmatic approach instead. When a catastrophe occurs, he should be first prompting for the action, extending his help to the needed victim and minimized the destruction-impact caused by natural disaster. In 2009, when BP failed to contain the leak oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, Barack Obama as a President of the United States quickly held an immediate closed-door party with BP’s top management. After several meetings, BP has reached the concession to pay mounting oil spill claim at USD20million in 4 years and agreed to scrambling the next bid before due date. From this perspective, Barack Obama could have won his next presidency campaign because of his agility to react with sudden-alerted situation, but also in ensuring financial safeguard to the affected vital-lifeline fishing villages.