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Find fulfillment in your finite life - the January Book of the Month is here!
Four Thousand Weeks is the Futures Book Club featured read for January!“We live in an age of impossible demands, infinite choice, relentless distraction and spiralling global crises. Yet most productivity advice, like other modern messages about time, makes things worse. It encourages the fantasy that we might one day “get everything done”, becoming the fully optimized, emotionally invincible masters of our time. The pursuit of this limit-denying delusion systematically leaves us more busy, distracted, and isolated from each other – while postponing the truly important parts of life to some point in the future that never quite seems to arrive.”
– Oliver Burkeman describing this book
While a little left of field of our usual futures reads, Four Thousand Weeks invites us to consider the future on a personal scale, and our own relationship with it. I'm chomping at the bit to get into this one!
New reads stick around a while. This book will be discussed in February, March & April. There's still time to get involved with recently featured booksYou're welcome to read along on your own, but if you'd like to:
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Playing with the Future
Ready to stretch your thinking? I'll help you discover creative ways to sense what's changing and shape the future
Futures Sampler for Change Agents is back in March Experience five methods for inviting the future into the way you lead change Keen to dip your toe into foresight but not sure where to start? Seeking to sample a variety of approaches to figure out where futures can bolster the way you approach change? Looking to explore the future more systematically while also bringing your creative and playful self? Want to have more meaningful conversations about where we are headed, what future you are...
Foresight Infused Strategy is the Futures Book Club featured read for January! Future Infused Strategy: A how-to guide for using foresight in practice from Maree Conway “Conventional strategic planning processes have become tired, formulaic, and rarely produce truly innovative and futures ready strategy. This book takes you into the world of foresight infused strategy, with people at it's core and collaboration as its primary process. Using foresight approaches in your strategy development is...
Hey Reader, Is building your futures and foresight literacy part of your plan for 2024? The Futures Book Club is a low pressure, high recommendation, social way to learn about futures and foresight methods and mindset. And right now you can secure your membership at a staggeringly good deal - $AUD24 per year, or $AUD3 month to month. The window to join at this phenomenally low price is closing. From 1 Feb, prices will be increasing. Join before the price hike to get your membership fee locked...