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How to Future
You can make projections and predictions about the future, and you might be right. But you can’t affect them until they happen. The best way to be prepared is to work on what’s before you right now.
Nick Trenton • Calm Your Thoughts: Stop Overthinking, Battle Stress, Stop Spiraling, and Start Living (The Path to Calm Book 2)
At the Institute for the Future we believe that the value of futures thinking is not in predicting the future (something no one can do), but in imagining possibilities of what the future could be. And if there was ever a time we needed such imagination, it is today.
walkerart.org • The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
“We think creatively (not predictively) about the future in order to decide what to do now in order to make possible different futures. There is no reason to be ‘future-oriented’ other than to try to change things, from now on . This means that you must be very careful when trying to ‘future’ to ensure that you are not unwittingly reproducing impl
... See moreTFSX • The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
But what makes the future distinctive and important isn’t that it hasn’t happened yet, but rather that it will be a time when the world looks different from today.
Peter Thiel • Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
These future-making questions may not have solid answers, but we have responsibility to make intelligent guesses. Our role as a species is not just to inhabit the world but to reconstitute and reimagine it.
Emerge • Now That You’ve Found the Others What Are You Going to Do?
future imagination involves two distinct steps, each of which is difficult. The first step involves questioning or rejecting the present, resisting its claim to be natural. The second step means constructing a plausible alternative, moving between an awareness of limits and a search for transcendence of those same limits.