Five Ways To Envisage The Future

Of which four are not as good as the fifth

Strategy — map it out yourself

Of which four are not as good as the fifth

Did Charlie Chaplin love cinema? The question itself sounds absurd. A legendary movie star and filmmaker, he must have been in love with the art of cinema.

He was, but not always. In 1916 he said:

“The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audience really want to see is flesh in blood on the stage.”

We all, not only Sir Chaplin, are lousy future forecasters for a simple reason:

• We all have our worldviews: mindsets, mental models, reality concepts

• We need them to feel safer in the complicated world

• Believing that the future will be different from today is painful because –

• It means that our worldviews are unreliable, and we feel insecure

That’s why we stick to our cozy mental models and believe that the world will never change.

But it will. Have you discovered something people have already been using for a long time? I have. Did you have a FOMO panic attack at that moment? I did. If you are a bus…