You gotta climb the steps... you can't skip them
I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
If you step out of a tenth story window you do not break the law of gravity, you confirm it.
Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results.
While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.