Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

Thoughts, stories and ideas about tomorrow from Futurist Jim Carroll. Sent each workday since August 2016.

2026

26 Principles for 2026: #5 Knowledge Velocity

If you are relying on what you already know, i.e, with your past degree, your decade of experience, to carry you through 2026, you are driving on fumes. Your battery is empty, your mind is out of gas, and you'll soon hit the limit of where you can go.

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Inspiration

Wildly Wrong

"Bumper sticker explanations of complicated issues are usually wildly inaccurate!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

Creativity

Mindset Matters

"The future is an attitude!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

Success

Leadership Empathy

"Compassion can outshine the chaos!"

Artificial Intelligence

Nurturing Optimism

"You can always find hope for the future by carefully examining the opportunities it is always showing you. (Just remember to always keep looking!)"

Embracing Mediocrity Book

Embrace Your Mediocrity!

"Are you a maestro of mediocrity, a virtuoso of the vague, a champion of the commonplace, a genius of the generic, an architect of the average, a titan of the trivial, a sovereign of the standard, or perhaps a wizard of the wonderfully ordinary?" - Futurist Jim Carroll

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