Because people ask me this or bring it up a lot:
I’m neither an idealist or a realist, but a pragmatist. Idealists know what they want but don’t know how to get there. Realists don’t know what they want but they know how to get somewhere (typically they just follow someone else). I’m a pragmatist: I have an idea of what I want, I know where I am, and I figure out where I need to go step by step, checking myself constantly along the way to make sure I’m going in the right direction. I’m cautious like that. Yeah.