#71 What Is Foresight? How to Write a Better Story for Yourself

Foresight, in a nutshell, is about envisioning the future you want to create and then practicing prioritization to take action towards your goals. As you hone your foresight, you gain the ability to make decisions and pursue opportunities that work for you, for the specific reasons that matter to you.

The practice of narrative foresight

A whole body of research exists to expose our human tendency to make sense of our experience by placing ourselves within a storyline. There is nothing wrong with this. In fact, my first book was about how to identify your life's storyline! Rather, the goal is to make you aware of how your brain naturally works so that you can make it work for you. Because if you don't actively contest the storyline, you will just follow the default.

Narrative foresight is the practice of choosing which stories you use to make sense of your past, present and future.

Narrative foresight has been studied and proved to be effective, but rarely practiced. The main reason for this is that the majority of the population doesn't recognize how significantly they are influenced by cultural stories and the status quo.

If you don’t realize you’re living in alignment with a poor story, it’s hard to change it!

That’s why this year on the Career Foresight podcast I’ve been asking every guest to speak consciously about the stories they recognize in our culture. Each guest that has been on the show has answered the following two questions:

What is a story about our relationship to work that you would challenge people to leave behind in 2019?What is a FRESH story about work you challenge people to embrace in 2019?

Full show notes here: https://www.careerforesight.co/podcast-feed/what-is-foresight