How To Predict The Future

Create it.

There might be other ways to create your future, but this approach has been the most effective for me in my personal life.

Coincidentally, there are a whole bunch of forerunners thet have found the same.

Steve Jobs once said that people can change the world and mold it, emphasizing the world's malleability.

Vannevar Bush believed that an individual, driven by determination, has the power to reshape the world.

Ben Horowitz highlighted the influence of a single software engineer whose solution forever altered the trajectory of the internet.

There are plenty of examples of this and I’m sure that people like Leonardo da Vinci, Ettore Bugatti, Claude Shannon would agree.

Okay, but how do I actually create it?

Well, everyone's circumstances are different. We all have different toolkits and skill stacks. But without a doubt, there's always something within arm's reach that you can take action or make a decision on.

The point is, there are things within your arm's reach that need your attention. Take care of them.

Make decisions around the things you're faced with, starting with whatever's closest.

Once you've taken action or made a decision, find the next most impactful thing and do that too.

That's about it. From there, you just repeat the process.

Heres an example from my personal life:

I want to have a better relationship with my son.

So I’m going to start sending him a postcard in the mail every week.

It’s not a big action, but I’m sure that it will positively affect my future relationship with my son.

Which is why I am saying that a straightforward way to predict your future is by creating it through purposeful action.

Anyways, it is almost 3 AM and I should be asleep.

I’ll keep you posted on how things go with the postcard!

Goodnight!

Cliff