How to Be a Futurist: 5 Steps That Will Get You There

The great thing about the trend of futurism is that it doesn’t require you to be a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, intellectualist. You can simply sit back and observe what’s happening in society and extrapolate where things are heading.

1. You need to believe in the future (or you’ll never get there).
2. Future thinking isn’t about getting rich quickly but, rather, understanding how your work contributes to the next step in human evolution.
3. Pay attention to current trends & outside-the-box thinkers. We live in an information age where everything has been digitized but there’s so much more than what we find on social media feeds.
4. Future thinkers are contemporary thinkers who put intellectual capital where others spend natural resources.
5. Reading is one of the best ways to turn yourself into a futurist. It helps to create a mental model of the world and the different ways it can be interpreted. Reading future books is a great way to instill the future mindset and learn about the different ways futurists think about the world.