You may have wondered why so many things seem to be harder and take longer that you would like - and why both these situations seem to be increasing. There is not an answer in every case, but what we do know is that the way we are taught to solve problems was designed for a different world. To deal with the uncertainty today, we need a different approach.

The old way—which still works in extremely predictable situations—is based on the assumption that the future is going to be pretty much like the past. Think demographics. You can calculate, with a high degree of confidence, the world population in 2050 because you know:

1. You know how many people are alive today: about 6.8 billion.

2. You know how those people are distributed by age, that is, you know how many teenagers there are, how many people over age sixty-five, and so on.

3. That means you know how many people are in their twenties and thirties, when most people decide to have kids.

4. And you know recent trends show people worldwide are, on the whole, deciding to have fewer kids.

We are going to give you a proven method for navigating in an uncertain world, an approach that will complement the kind of reasoning we have all been taught. It will help you deal with high levels of uncertainty, no matter what kind of situation you face. We know it works because entrepreneurs - the people who have to deal with uncertainty every day - use it successfully all the time.

In the face of the unknown, entrepreneurs act.

Specifically they:

• Figure out what they want

• Pause to think about what they have learned from taking that step.

• Build that learning into their next step - and if that means adjusting form the initial path, so be it.

In other words the best way to create the future is to: Act. Learn. Build. Repeat.

Extract from Paul. B. Brown Forbes article

The best way to predict the future is to create it (Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States)