When your mind feels stuck, make a ten-year resolution

The future doesn't start now or tomorrow. For professional futurists, it starts ten years from today. That is because it is enough time for society, and your own life, to become dramatically different.

• It's enough time for new technologies to scale up.
• It's enough time for social movements to achieve victories.
• It's enough time for big ideas to take root and gain traction.

Thinking on a ten-year timeline will help you open your mind, take in new information, and reduce your blind spots.