Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.
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Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.
To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
If you have to forecast, forecast often.
A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'
Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
The best way to predict the future is to change it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.