To be able to do and know so much and yet to be unable to predict what we crave to know is painful and frustrating. So we perpetuate the age-old search for sources of certainty. That leaves us susceptible to pundits and prophets: experts and forecasters who claim superior knowledge.

Like so many, he recognised that the best he could hope for was better, not best, never perfect.

artists respond to the complex system that is life with the complex system that is the human mind. The capacity to pay attention, make sense, act and change ahead of the curve is today the holy grail of most organisations and nations.

Nothing about this trajectory yields a coherent narrative. Jo was finding her way through life, little by little, experimenting with what suited her, and attracted employers. Every step she took revealed more of who she was and what she wanted from life. There was no map; she just explored.

The MBTI test-retest validity lies below statistical significance, meaning that if you test someone more than once, you are likely to get different results.

So we stand now at a crossroads. Can we live with the fact that neither professional forecasters, nor historians, nor profiles, nor even DNA can untangle the systemic complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity of our lives? All of our ancestors did so. Or is a more predictable life – calmer, easier, with less fear of error or surprise – too tantalising

In reality, without inside information, it is impossible to beat the market consistently.13 This is one reason why the market is increasingly dominated by passive investment funds that promise only to match market indexes, not beat them.

Ineradicable uncertainty remains inherent to human life; Hannah Arendt called it the defining characteristic of the future.

Rich futures are mapped by those with the energy to convene, the passion to learn from the widest variety of human imagination, paying attention, changing course, discovering and inventing what the world demands of us all.