Foresight

All animals have hindsight. Its a rule of nature. In fact, genes are a confirmation of this. All information is stored in genes so that you can use it to good effect to keep you species moving on, even after the current generation.

But what makes humans different is.. foresight. Very few consciously realize this and even fewer try to understand it closely. We admire it more than anything else in our humanness.

In business, its the ability to guess where the industry is going that CEOs are judged upon. In sports, tactical astuteness or guessing what the tactics of the other team is doing is what wins you at the highest levels. In science, you do experiments to validate your foresight of a possible theory that brings you Nobel prizes. In politics, its your ability to read your opponents moves and act ahead of them that gets you votes. As a teacher, its your ability to foresee where your students will get stuck that makes you the best teacher.

The people who sees the pattern in all of these are the ones who read life the best. Foresight is what you need to understand. Everything else will follow.

Patterns

I have seen patterns all my life. The only thing that has changed is that I have realized the importance of noticing it everywhere and on a more regular basis. Patterns are the essence of life. Nature works in patterns. Its only because of the repulsive intrusion of the mankind that it is less obvious in the current world. Possibly, that is why less and less people recognize and give due importance.

The thing that I am still waiting for in myself is about how to use this knowledge of patterns to do things.

That.. will be fun.