A atracção pelo futuro

"Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. And the nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression."

Recordo muitas vezes esta frase irónica de Sir John Harvey-Jones.

Fascina-me o desafio de pensar, de influenciar, de construir proactivamente o futuro, em vez de esperar como folha na corrente. Por isso, atrai-me o tema das estratégias-trajectória.

Fascina-me algum pensamento de Heidegger, daí este sublinhado:

“O futuro é primária e decisivamente o que nos faz ser o que somos (eu diria antes, o que vamos sendo). É essa força constitutiva do futuro que Mourinho utiliza para motivar os seus jogadores. Para ele, o que fizemos, ou as estrelas que somos, não é o mais importante – Mourinho diz repetidamente isso aos seus jogadores: “o futuro é o que importa”. O futuro é a base do significado, é de onde vem o projecto que alguém tem para si próprio.”
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“Do ponto de vista heideggeriano, o mais importante para entendermos o que nos trouxe até ao presente é a projecção que corporizadamente somos para o futuro. Mourinho projecta constantemente o futuro, sobretudo o futuro da sua equipa.
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“o futuro, o projecto que temos de futuro, o entendimento genuíno, instintivo, intuitivo que dele fazemos é o que nos faz ser o que somos hoje.”
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E por fim: “Com base no que escolhemos e acreditamos genuinamente, para nós próprios enquanto projecção de futuro, assim determinamos as nossas acções de hoje.”

E recordar "future-back" approach to strategy", "Como o tempo flui?" e "O meu presente não existe senão graças ao meu futuro"

Por tudo isto, recomendo a leitura de "We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment":

"it is increasingly clear that the mind is mainly drawn to the future, not driven by the past. Behavior, memory and perception can’t be understood without appreciating the central role of prospection. We learn not by storing static records but by continually retouching memories and imagining future possibilities. Our brain sees the world not by processing every pixel in a scene but by focusing on the unexpected.
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Most prospection occurs at the unconscious level as the brain sifts information to generate predictions. Our systems of vision and hearing, like those of animals, would be overwhelmed if we had to process every pixel in a scene or every sound around us. Perception is manageable because the brain generates its own scene, so that the world remains stable even though your eyes move three times a second. This frees the perceptual system to heed features it didn’t predict, which is why you’re not aware of a ticking clock unless it stops. It’s also why you don’t laugh when you tickle yourself: You already know what’s coming next.
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The brain’s long-term memory has often been compared to an archive, but that’s not its primary purpose. Instead of faithfully recording the past, it keeps rewriting history.
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The fluidity of memory may seem like a defect, especially to a jury, but it serves a larger purpose. It’s a feature, not a bug, because the point of memory is to improve our ability to face the present and the future. To exploit the past, we metabolize it by extracting and recombining relevant information to fit novel situations.
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This link between memory and prospection has emerged in research showing that people with damage to the brain’s medial temporal lobe lose memories of past experiences as well as the ability to construct rich and detailed simulations of the future."