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title: "10 Reasons Why I Still Believe In The Future"
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# 10 Reasons Why I Still Believe In The Future

This is a really hard post to write. As much of the world reels with  the early stages of the seven stages of election grief, I think its important to think about the realities of the future.

Here’s a slide I used on stage one time, talking about the challenges people have with shock elections:

![sevenstages](/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/SevenStages.png)

Lots of people are struggling today, and are on various places on the curve.

As a futurist, here’s what I know. I expect I will be writing and speaking about these issues a lot more in the future. For now, lets leave it at this:

- Science still exponentiates

- Knowledge still accelerates

- The global idea machine still reverberates

- Big thinkers still think of how to solve big challenges

- Hyper-connectivity still provides for a reimagined future

- Inventors still invent

- Dreamers still dream

- Innovators still innovate

- Doers still do

- Teachers still teach

- Change agents can still effect positive change

- Optimism can always overcome pessimism

- No barrier to the future is insurmountable with the right determination

- At the end of the day, the majority of people are still decent

I started working on a list of 10 things.

I got to 14.

Let’s take that as a good sign.