Confronting Impossible Futures
When the future is uncertain, the neat parameters of rigid goal-setting frameworks are of little help; it feels like throwing darts without a target to aim at.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
The last time I led a field trip with my students to Silicon Valley, we spent some time in the Institute for the Future (IFTF) in Palo Alto, California, a nonprofit think tank dedicated to helping people imagine future possibilities to make better decisions. Our guide to the future was Sean Ness, a director at IFTF. “Focus on the future of X,” he t
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