Make sense of the future? Yes you can

2 Perspectives spanning 3 generations discussing the future

Her T-shirt read… “Be Brave & Kind”

We were talking, on a Zoom call, about how we hold the future.

Lindsay, a twenty-something and I, Dan, a seventy-something, were exploring together how to make sense of the future.

Most likely, you are trying to make sense of the future too…unless of course you don’t plan on living in it.

“Making sense of the future” means using our six-plus senses for understanding future possibilities and then taking actions to make the future as juicy and life-fulfilling as possible.

To understand the future, look at the current realities and coming attractions shaping that future.

The Future Realities — Bumpy (horrible?) and Beautiful (possible?)

The Bumpy :

We were saddened but not particularly surprised to read a recent report from Stanford.

Its study of 10,000 young people (15-to-25-year-olds) around the world showed that 45% felt their concerns about climate change impact their ability to function daily; 75% said the future is frightening; and 56% said that humanity is doomed.