“THINK”-FORESIGHT with colsanjaypande – Post 5

“THINK”-FORESIGHT with colsanjaypande – Post 5

Sequential? Simultaneity? Vision? Today ‘Foresight’. Do you realize that these words are made to look exclusive with ownership of few? “THINK” series is all about learning the art of thinking.

Mind functions the way you train it to. Imagine you have a household to run and a small student hostel to run. The first is managed due to necessity and the second one because it generates income. You run both of these very efficiently. Both are up to date at all times. You are leading a happy life. You have no idea of what will happen if the hostel closes. The mind has been trained to think and act ‘simultaneously’ for the twin daily tasks but ‘sequential’ for future. One day slips into another till something goes wrong. Ever thought on these lines?

What is foresight? Its not something that the elderly or the aged will think, it’s just predicting outcome of planned events for the period foresight is being made for. If in the above example I let the person have a household and tell him that he will join the hostel as a warden six months hence, his planning starts. Change the city  of hostel and he plans more. The complete action he is taking for the transition is nothing else but ‘foresight’. We don’t realise it.

What stops extrapolating the events to a month, year and years? Personal, work related, life related, family related etc.? Why does one family run so smooth and there is a massive chaos in another? Point is simple, we take sequential and simultaneity as two water tight compartments. They are not. Sequential thinking converts to simultaneous thinking when a number of issues get handled by brain at one time. We fight with brain and now convert these simultaneous actions to sequential. We sacrifice the other strengths of our mind, i.e. ‘foresight’. It’s so easy to develop it.

Between now and the date in mind we need to put each and every known event and influence and then simply work out the activities after considering the inter-dependability. It is so easy to predict the events. Our mind should be able to sit at future and look back in ‘past’ and immediately be able to come to ‘present’ and look to the future. The more the ability of mind to go back and forth and analyse every input, the better the foresight gets.

Why business or military or say logistics or finance, foresight should be practised from student days. I will be using this ‘THINK” series to teach simple tools to develop all of these mandatory qualities. It has to become part of our daily routine.

The “THINK” series will culminate into ‘TIME LINE’ where work, life, passion, hobbies, likes, dislikes, influences – in fact everything will get plotted on a line called TIME LINE. You will be pleasantly surprised when you see that it starts giving answers to most complex questions bothering you.

All you did was to “THINK”.

More to come on “THINK”:

‘passion’

‘out-of-the-box’

‘planning’

‘Applying “THINK” Series to Life

Post 6 soon on “THINK” – PLANNING with colsanjaypande

EARLIER ON “THINK” SERIES:

Post – 1 “THINK” with colsanjaypande

Post – 2 “THINK” – SEQUENTIAL THINKING with colsanjaypande

Post – 3 “THINK” – SIMULTANEITY OF THINKING with colsanjaypande

Post – 4 “THINK”-VISION with colsanjaypande