Why it’s your Conscious Choice to Impact the Future or Not

The world becomes a more hopeful place when you ask yourself what could go right instead of always assuming you know what will go wrong to prevent the realisation of a more exciting future.

There’s a reason Kodak never invented the digital camera. We become so focused on our own areas of expertise we fail to appreciate the gravitas of external factors which affect the world we live in. Our existing knowledge blinds us from seeing the possibility that we are wrong, or that what we have grown to believe will be disrupted by something new, altering the fabric of everything we know.

Instead of imagining what is possible we become defensive and reject what others are excited about out of fear — it’s human nature. What we have right now is good, why would we risk losing that?

Simultaneously, we underestimated the fluidness of change and our ability to affect it. We allow things to remain the way they are because it is the way they have always been and we have never known anything different. This is without appreciating the fact everything we see, use, touch, feel and interact with was invented and implemented by other people exactly the same as us. Every product, service and platform grew from someone just like you making a decision that meant they thought they could make the world a better place.