Should we predict or invent the future? Seth Godin in his blog clearly asks the question and explains his preference:
“The most common way to deal with the future is to try to predict it. To be in the right place at the right time with the right skills or investments.
A far more successful and reliable approach is to invent the future. Not all of it, just a little part. But enough to make a difference.”
While I fully agree with this view, the question comes: what part of the future should we try to invent?
It is obvious that out lives are influenced by many events and factors we can’t really influence directly. Sometimes we try to invent a future but can’t really manage to achieve this ambition.
Pending further analysis, my suggestion would be to try to invent that part of the future that resonates within our wider network. What we can invent within that segment might have a wider influence or remain local. Still what is within our power is to change things within our network.
Let’s focus on what we can invent and change that will influence our wider network and set to change the world!
