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YOUR FUTURE STARTS NOW

By the time you reach the end of the book, I promise you will understand your Future You better than ever...you will be able to see yourself in the future you want and know the steps needed to get there.

Brian David Johnson has spent a quarter century helping governments, schools, corporations, and small businesses shape the future—now, he wants to help you.

In The Future You, Johnson distills his work as an applied futurist and gives readers the practical tools to craft the future they’ve always wanted. Offering a unique combination of practical guidance, interactive workbooks, and compelling real-life stories, The Future You empowers readers to break through the fear of uncertainty. Whether you want to find your new passion, switch your career, or make a personal change, fear holds so many of us captive and prevents us from taking the steps necessary to start now. You no longer have to just dream about a better future, you can turn those plans, those ideas, and those hopes into reality.

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The future is Brian David Johnson's business. He is a professor of practice at Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and a Futurist and Fellow at Frost & Sullivan. From 2009 to 2016, he was Intel Corporation’s first-ever futurist. Johnson has more than 40 patents, and he has been published in many consumer and trade publications, including the Wall Street Journal and Slate, and he appears regularly on Bloomberg TV, PBS, Fox News, and the Discovery Channel. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperOne (January 5, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062965069
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062965066
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Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.01 x 9 inches

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The future is Brian David Johnson's business. As a futurist he works with organizations to develop an actionable 10 -15 year vision and what it will feel like to live in the future. His work is called futurecasting, using ethnographic field studies, technology research, cultural history, trend data, global interviews and even science fiction to provide a pragmatic road map of the future. As an applied futurist Johnson has worked with governments, trade organizations, start-ups and multinational corporations to not only help envision their future but specify the steps needed to get there. Johnson is currently the futurist in residence at Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination, a professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the Director of the ASU Threatcasting Lab. He is also a Futurist and Fellow at Frost and Sullivan.

Johnson speaks and writes extensively in ongoing columns for IEEE Computer Magazine and Successful Farming where he is the "Farm Futurist”. He has contributed articles to publications like The Wall Street Journal, Slate, and Wired Magazine. Johnson holds over 40 patents and is the best-selling author of both science fiction and fact books (WaR: Wizards and Robots, 21st Century Robot and Science Fiction Prototyping). He was appointed first futurist ever at the Intel Corporation in 2009 where he worked for over a decade helping to design over 2 billion microprocessors. Johnson appears regularly on Bloomberg TV, PBS, FOX News, and the Discovery Channel and has been featured in Scientific American, The Technology Review, Forbes, INC, and Popular Science. He has directed two feature films and is an illustrator and commissioned painter. In 2016 Samuel Goldwyn released "Vintage Tomorrows” a documentary based upon Johnson's book of the same name.

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BDJ provides some solid guide lines for planning for the future. He reinforces the positive effects of being an active participant. When doing so we define the future!

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A surprisingly fresh and engaging take on positively navigating your future

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Despite being a little skeptical (I typically don't read self-help books), I found "The Future You" to be an engaging read. Johnson is sufficiently self-aware to realize that there’s a tension in many cases between readers who want help in navigating their future, but who can’t stomach the smarmy self-assuredness of many self-help guides. As a result, this book is far from smarmy, and is actually rather compelling.

This is captured quite disarmingly in the opening pages as Johnson writes “Here’s the honest truth: Never in a million years did I think you’d be reading this. Even for a guy whose job it is to look out into the future, I never imagined my own future would involve writing a self-help book.”

The book is divided into eight chapters that take the reader through the same process of "futurecasting" that Johnson uses with his clients-except that here, it’s focused on helping the reader navigate their own unique future and, in the words of the subtitle “build the life you want.” The chapters are well-seasoned with personal stories that, as well as being engaging, illustrate the points that Johnson is making. They also come with quick exercises for the reader. However, these are well thought out and, I imagine, will be quite useful to many readers.

After a short orientation, book tackles misconceptions about the future, and how to think like a futurist (this chapter alone I can imagine will appeal to aspiring futurists!), before getting into how it’s possible to increate your control over how your future unfolds. It goes on to exploring the importance of thinking local, coming to terms with technology (which seems to dominate so much future-thinking), and the darker sides of the future, before wrapping up with parting words of wisdom.

It’s a progression that draws the reader on, and truly does provide useful insights into how to think about and create the future they aspire to.

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Brian David Johnson is an engaging writer and storyteller. He is a professed optimist who has, for 20+ years as a Futurist worked to help individuals and organizations create their futures. Throughout his book, he offers real-life examples of how his 'futurecast' strategy transforms lives. I am so taken with this strategy that I am now applying it to my own life!

His book is the perfect companion to mine: "From Fire to Water: Moving through Change; The Six Elements for Personal Resiliency.

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A defined process of planning the future you want and the future you don't

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I bought this book at a local bookstore because it looked so interesting. I read a few pages in it while I was at the bookstore and decided to purchase it. After a while, I found it really hard to put down because this book walks you through the process step by step of defining the future you want and the future you don't want. As Brian David Johnson says "the process is the process".

I'm almost done reading this book and after having gone through most of it, I now look at planning my future in a whole different light. Planning the future is not and should not be left to chance, not when it's within our power to shape that future, define it, and identify the possible pitfalls and threats to that given future we seek to create as people on individual basis.

I can't recommend this book enough. Get it today and read it.

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The Future You offers readers a process to examine their lives and to approach the future with limited anxiety and fear. The book is not that different from a book on traditional goal setting. The author uses phrases such as "futurecasting" and "backcasting," but in many regards this is a way to set goals for the future and simplify them to daily, weekly and annual practices that can be motivational and calming. I think if I were reading the book rather than listening to the audiobook, I would have skimmed quite a bit of it. The anecdotal stories are often drawn out and wordy. Many of them involve a friend of the author's expressing fear and anxiety over the future.

As we live with so many unknowns about the future, short-term and long-term, this book's topic is relevant and it may help readers at least prepare themselves better for the future which is the point. The author emphasizes that he does not predict the future but helps people and organizations prepare themselves for various probabilities.

Toward the end of the book, the theme turns to dealing with death. I thought that this is one of the most important sections of the book but also where the author misses the mark widely. His response to fears of death involve what I consider platitudes like looking to humanity and the drama of our stories for comfort or taking comfort in the suggestion that you can control your thoughts when near death and hold onto positive images about life. Neither of these offer real comfort about death and are limited in scope, because the future you following death involves more than humanity and positive thinking. This requires a transcendent being--God and some promise of ongoing life that inspires hope and faith. The author avoids discussions of faith, even when given the queue by another futurist he cites who points to faith. The author's approach to death is naïve.

I purchased this book after hearing the author on the podcast The Art of Manliness. I think the content of the podcast is sufficient without needing to read the book. But it is certainly not unhelpful to read it or listen to it and examine your life. I would also suggest making faith a priority, especially faith in the promises of Scripture.

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