We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We certainly will prepare consciously and professionally, but still you cannot predict the future.
I'm a lousy predictor of the future.
We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.
Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.
One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
I can't predict the future.
Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.
The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.
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