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102 Examples of the Real World

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The real world is that which is not personal, theoretical or isolated. This is commonly used to denote the chaos, imperfection, complexity and apparent absurdity of the world as it actually exists. The real world can be used to test ideas that appear to logical or internally consistent that nevertheless may fail due to the wild complexity of reality. The following are common examples of the real world.
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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