To be tough minded, Meg summarizes, is to believe and trust in ‘facts’ and to
learn through continuous testing and experimentation, whereas to be tender
minded is to act on beliefs and intuition, be spontaneous, hopeful and ‘idealistic’.7
In sustainability, Meg argues the work of pragmatism is to bridge these
ways of being through ‘processes that develop new relationships of trust,
respect and regular patterns of action, rather than specific one-time products
or outcomes’.