This is something that I've thought about quite a bit over the years. My current resolution is that practicality and unbridled imagination are both attributes o

This is something that I've thought about quite a bit over the years. My current resolution is that practicality and unbridled imagination are both attributes of a person's mental makeup - and that we probably grow up with an affinity in one direction or the other... But that it's a false dichotomy to say that one must necessarily inhibit the other. It's just that to find a synergistic balance between the two implies deliberate introspection, practice, and cultivation to achieve the most beneficial balance. In my case, I arrived from the more laterally minded side - fancied I might be a sculptor before differentiating professionally into an engineer. Dreaming big was easy, but the self-work to be done was to fortify the practical strengths needed to synthesize the dreams with what is practically achievable. Not saying its easy, but I am saying that it's not impossible. So, if you want to start to even out your levelheadedness then there are a lot of fun avenues to pursue. Creative writing, read some surrealist literature, talk with people who have experimented with psychedelics and witnessed the preposterous cognitive edifices of modern culture fall to shimmering disjoint pieces before their eyes, etc etc. Then work on reconciling the cognitive dissonances along the way.