The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
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The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
While our goal is to improve confidence in facing uncertain futures by providing tools and instilling clarity of vision, if we are to advance future-making efficacy it’s critical to recognize these perceived inequities and limitations on agency.
Here is the problem: The future visions that are put out there into the world are either commonplace, boring, meaningless, (corporate) agenda-driven, uninspiring, or all of the above together.
The reason for that, in my opinion, is that our minds are stuck in old ideologies, old systems, and old narratives, which prevents us from thinking outside th
... See more“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
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