Tag: Futures Thinking
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It was quite a different evening for me because I was able to talk to two people about futures thinking. It didn’t even start as a classroom lesson. I only began by sharing what I learned from a course I took at the Urgent Optimists. What is Urgent Optimists? Here’s a blog post where I…
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We consume media and allow it to tell us what truth means. But seeing the truth through its lens isn’t as truthful as we hoped. Admit it or not, we Google for almost everything. And in this way, we allow Google to define truth. We have trained ourselves to trust the first result we get from…
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If people ask you what you want to be in the next five years, you might answer how it would be the same or different from your today. Some of you might want to change your world, and as a change seeker, you can’t just let it happen without dipping into the water. You don’t just…
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Now that borders are easing up, we are starting to look forward going back to our flights and travel. There was even an evening that I felt nostalgic after browsing through the travel photos I had across Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia. Ever since airfares became more affordable for the masses, all we could ever…
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Hello, everyone! If you’ve been here for some time, perhaps you’ve read in one of my blog posts how I am part of a community, Urgent Optimists. If you have missed it, here’s what the Urgent Optimists community does: We’re bringing together people who want to feel authentically hopeful about the future, and who are…
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From the blog post And when is the shift over? If you sell your time as the measure of the work you do, the work is over when the shift ends. Clock in, clock out. If you sell your output as the measure of the work, your work is over when the inbox is empty.…
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After watching a replay of a book reading at the Urgent Optimists, I really find the book Station Eleven riveting. It even hits differently now that I am reading it two years into the pandemic. Though the pandemic in the novel is much worse that what we went through, I still find Chapter 6 (An…