“Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.”

In this episode, we step outside the mind’s demand for practicality and question what that word is really protecting.

Practicality often masquerades as neutrality, but it’s deeply personal, contextual, and identity-shaping. What seems sensible in one frame can quietly limit vitality, creativity, and presence in another.

We explore:

• How practicality becomes an identity rather than a tool

• Why “being busy” often passes for being practical

• The difference between practical vision, effort, and activity

• How rushing is a prediction the body carries

• Why impracticality can restore creative flow and nervous-system regulation

Impracticality isn’t rebellion or chaos.

It’s a way of interrupting automatic continuity—long enough to notice what’s alive.

Sometimes the most practical thing we can do

is stop being legible to the past.

Now go play.

The world is waiting for you to remember the wonder that is your real inheritance.

(You can blame us when you’re late.)

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