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Not every transition must be a caterpillar into a butterfly, or a solitary trek through terror and pain. The natural world has other models of transformation.
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All the time, we are being pitched futures. Every advertisement, every political campaign, every quarterly budget is a threat about what will happen in the future. Sometimes it feels like those futures are happening, even if we don't like it or not. We should seize that voice as much as possible because we get a say. How? Over the course of eight years, I have made over 180 episodes of the flash forward show. The big things I have learned about how to think about what can happen in the future are here. Part 3 is this one. Read the first and second parts.

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