Foresight is one of humanity’s superpowers. We all use it every day, in a foresight-action cycle, to predict, create, and lead the future. Foresight professionals are anyone tasked to think about probable, possible, preferable, or preventable (“Four Ps”) futures, over any time horizon. Foresight is both a set of time-tested practices, and emerging models of adaptiveness and values, rooted in psychology and complex systems research. The more we use good foresight practices, the better our futures become.

The two books of The Foresight Guide, written over the last seven years by our academically-trained team at Foresight University, address this challenge. This brief is an introduction to Book 1, Introduction to Foresight, published in 2021.
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-F...

Book 1 covers personal, team, and organizational foresight practices and challenges. There is an investing strategy (the Roth and Custodial Roth IRA) at the end of my presentation that may be of interest to you, especially for your children. [Note: I am not a professional investment advisor, take this information to your professional advisor]. We hope this information helps you in your foresight journey. As always, let us know in the comments what you think, and what we can improve for the next edition. Thrive On Friends! Even with all our Current Challenges, Our Personal and Global Future Can Be Amazing!

Bio:
John Smart is a student of strategic and adaptive foresight, global futures, exponential processes, and complex systems. He is President of the Acceleration Studies Foundation nonprofit (est. 2003), co-Founder of the Evo-Devo Universe complex systems research community (est. 2008), and CEO of Foresight University, a foresight learning and development company (est. 2016). For twenty years, John has taught and written on foresight development, and on the drivers, opportunities, and problems of exponential processes throughout human history. John has a B.S. in business administration from UC Berkeley, an M.S. in futures studies from the University of Houston, and an M.S.-equivalency in physiology and medicine from UCSD School of Medicine. He blogs at Medium.com, and his speakers website is JohnMSmart.com. He lives in Ann Arbor, MI with his wife and two young children.