So one of the things about the future, one of the things about strategic planning, one of the things about trying to figure out where we're going what we're doing is that uncertainty is huge, right that's why a lot of people say it's challenging to think about the future how are you going to think about the future if you have no idea what's going to happen next you have no idea because it's going to hit you have no idea what happened we'll have another so you know we might invent the matter transmitter we might invent the replicator tomorrow or we might solve cove it, or we might cure cancer, or we might get rid of heart disease we might do with any of these things tomorrow these breakthroughs may occur at any point in time both positive breakthroughs and make a record we have no idea what's going to happen next, and that's why it's so difficult the plan itself difficult to build scenarios it's so difficult to figure out where things are going. Uncertainty is out there, and that's why it's so difficult. Still, even though it's really uncertain, I've talked previously about what you can do for your plans to stoop to mitigate that a bit more before I talk about like don't forget to factor in human ingenuity because humans are very ingenious we can do all sorts of cool things that. The other thing I said was prepared for surprises we may be blacked ones could happen things could just change completely in a second and a foot obviously the best way to deal with something like that is just to be really isn't about it because there are things you cannot change these are things that are occurring you just need to change our plans. Take small steps, and the reason you have to take small steps in the direction that you feel the world is going. Is that circumstances. Could change. You may need to take you to know it, you may need to revert, you may need to take steps in a different direction, but if you take huge steps if you make huge commitments in a particular direction. Something changes, something massively changes that you have no idea was going to occur. It only occurs. Tell us how you can be a futurist, and this time, there's no possible way to figure out where things are going. Still, there are trends, there are ways of seeing where things are going, there are techniques, there are futuristic needs that you can use to sort of map out their future but then when it comes to execution when it comes to taking action. Taking small steps in human ingenuity and preparing for surprises are things that you can do to mitigate if the plans you've determined are where things are going to change. They will because life is changing the world is changing. Everything changes all the time, and you just need to make sure that you factor that in, and taking small steps towards your goal is a good way to do it.
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