Aesthethics | Ambiguity - missing information |
Attitudes | Authority |
Barriers | Bounded Rationality - people are generally somewhat rational but not completely |
Bureaucracies | Capital |
Chaos - the ability of small things to change the future of large systems | Competition |
Competitive Advantage / Disadvantage | Comradery |
Constraints | Coolness |
Cooperation | Corruption |
Costs | Creativity - the ability to create that which doesn't exist |
Crime | Cronyism |
Cultural Capital | Disasters |
Disease | Emotion |
Entropy | Expectations |
Families | Finances |
Forces of Nature | Gravity |
Grit & Resilience | History |
Hope | Human Fallibility |
Human Needs | Humor |
Identity | Ideology |
Imagination - the ability to think about that which doesn't exist | Imperfection |
Indifference | Inertia |
Inflation | Infrastructure |
Institutions | Interest |
Knowledge | Language |
Laws | Licenses |
Love | Markets |
Misconceptions | Misinformation |
Mood | Nations |
Nature | Norms |
Obstacles | Opinions |
Organizations | Perceptions |
Personal Agency | Policies |
Politics | Pollution |
Power | Power Structures |
Pride | Procedures |
Processes | Recessions |
Regulations | Relationships |
Reputation | Resistance to Change |
Risk | Roles & Responsibility |
Sensibilities | Social Constructs |
Social Groups | Social Interaction |
Social Issues | Social Situations |
Social Status | Standards |
Stories | Supply Chains |
Symbols | Systems |
Talent | Taxation |
Technology | The Human Condition |
The Human Experience | Time Pressures |
Trade Barriers | Traditions |
Trust | Weather |
Word of Mouth | Worldviews |
Detailed Example
The real world can be used to critique or test theories. For example, post modern critical theory largely assumes that all human systems, institutions, cultures and relationships are power structures. This doesn't reflect the real world where things such as trust, comradery and empathy play a large role.Intangible Things
Intangible things that have no physical form are nonetheless part of the real world. For example, a norm that modifies the behavior of millions of people.Pragmatism
Pragmatism is the process of working with the world as it really exists such that you are able to jump through hoops, compromise and push through in an environment of competition, complexity and imperfection.| Overview: Real World | ||
Type | ||
Definition (1) | That which is not personal, theoretical or isolated. | |
Definition (2) | The world as it actually exists. | |
Definition (3) | The complex realities of the universe and the human condition. | |
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