Non-Obvious 2017: How To Think Different, Curate Ideas and Predict The Future

In the survey, a majority of respondents felt that technology and social media (often described as “selfie culture” which I explored in my 2016 trend Selfie Confidence) had enabled more independent thinking and less desire to conform among Korea’s youth.

The business opportunity is to operationalize ways to transform these people – whether they are consumers or employees – into being actively loyal instead.

Discovering trends takes a willingness to combine curiosity with observation and add insight to create valuable ideas that you can then test to ensure they are valid.

Being thoughful is harder to do when everyone seems to expect thinking to come in real time. Yet the people who are routinely thoughtful are the ones who gain and keep respect. They add value instead of noise...and you can be one of them.

Trend curators don’t seek needles, they gather the hay and then create the needle to put into the middle of it.

Women can be fierce, strong, unapologetic. The lines are blurring and standing in the middle is a new generation of women who have control to make the lives they want.

Curation is the ultimate method of transforming noise into meaning.

A great trend is a unique curated observation about the accelerating present.

Millennials didn’t invent the second job, they just branded it. The side hustle offers something worth much more than money: A hedge against feeling stuck and dull and cheated by life. This psychological benefit is the real reason for the Millennial obsession. ...in the best-case scenario, your side hustle can be like a lottery ticket, offering the