Ari Wallach : 3 ways to plan for the (very) long term

Ari Wallach·TEDxMidAtlantic
3 ways to plan for the (very) long term
Summary 

The speaker explains three ways of thinking for every major decision that you’re working on. 

Transgenerational thinking 1) is to set your children up to how they’re going to interact with their kids and their kids and their kids. 

Futures thinking 2) is that we have to really think deeply, it’s not to look at the future in one way but it’s diverse and vast. 

Telos thinking 3) shows ultimate aim and ultimate purpose clearly. 

Simply, try to think about not the next three and five years but pushing past your own life. It leads you to doing things a little bit bigger than you thought were possible. Look at the word of the title, “Very”, and it doesn’t mean to postpone solving our problems more but to change our thoughts. The speaker means that short-term thinking that we think is just right now, and long-term thinking that we think now becomes short-term thinking. It’s because our future is not the point but it’s futuring. In fact, our future is continuing next to our future like the speaker said that he has been futuring for about 20 years 〜〜and it’s continuing forever.