Read something interesting the other day.
"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools."
I think the lesson is that it is vital for everyone’s good if you have skin in the game. If you spent all your time thinking, you can be brilliant in your own mind because your ideas never get tested by reality. If you thrash about without thinking, you’re an overly zealous idiot.
Be thoughtful, but make sure you have skin in the game if you expect people and society to take you seriously.