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You have to stand in the future to create a different future. Our friend, Mike Maples Jr., calls this “backcasting.” Legendary builders must stand in the future and pull the present from the current reality to the future of their design. So an important additional job of the builder is to persuade early like-minded people to join a new movement.

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- “You can know that something is the future long before the world actually accepts that it is. There’s a kind of dogged persistence that I admire from people who have a belief —a definite vision about what the world will look like —and they show up day, after day, after day, even though they get beaten down by the world.”