How to create "the future"
Carlos Burges Ruiz de Gopegui
Senior Content Manager ES Library for Programming, Creative, Sales, Customer Support, Finances and Business English | LinkedIn Learning en LinkedIn
Have you ever wondered how some people can tell the future so accurately? It's not about crystal balls. In fact, the future is something that hasn't happened, but oh, surprise! it turns out that the future can be created.
Let me explain it to you.
Imagine that you are able to identify something that is going to happen, i.e., with the data and experience you have, the possible outcome of a situation becomes foreseeable.
Now you have two options: shut up or talk about it. Well, first you have to think about that foreseeable situation (but if you are a subscriber to this newsletter you know how heavy I am with the concept "think"), but when you have an outcome in your head, it is time to speak about it: "This is going to happen and this - or these - are the possible solutions".
And now comes the trickiest part of all this.
When the time comes, people who have read/heard your solution (a forecast with a solution is a future, a forecast without a solution is a doomsayer's words) probably will immediately align themselves with the solution, because it is easier to adopt a line of thought and action already proposed - especially if it is well thought out, good and reasonable - than to try to think of a full new one, especially if what is presented is complex and full of nuances.
And that is how the future is created.