The Daily Habits of Futures Thinkers

A. FUTURES THINKING — MINDSETS AND BEHAVIOURS
#1 Entertaining wild cards & possibility
#2 Think in time continuums & likelihoods
#3 Have a beginner’s mindset
#4 Optimism & Can-doism
#5 Establish Status Quo Convention … then Find the Gap
#6 Pursue Adjacent Rabbit Holes…Just Don’t Get Stuck There
SUPPLEMENT: How much time do you spend explicitly (on average) improving your future thinking craft?
B. FUTURES THINKING — SOURCES & INSPIRATIONS
#7. Variety is the spice of the future mind
#8 Polarity teases out insight from the extremes
#9 Novel starting points and experiences
#10 History doesn’t repeat in the future ... but it does inform it
#11 Scan for multi-disciplinary signals- avoid the echo chambers
#12 Distinguish between accepted wisdom and momentum
C. FUTURES THINKING — REGIMENS & DISCIPLINES
#13 Journaling
#14 Change The Process
#15 Radar
#16 Rank Value & Importance
#17 Be the Multi-tool, don’t always be the hammer
#18 Lead other lives