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Your Map to the Future: Learn How to Navigate and Shape What Lies Ahead

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In Your Map to the Learn How to Navigate and Shape What Lies Ahead, Dr. Mesko, a futurist researcher and global keynote speaker, reveals that analyzing the future isn’t just for experts or think tanks—it’s a skill everyone can use. He describes how starting from the traps of short-term thinking and presentism, we can finally expand our time perspective and learn to observe and examine the future as we have been doing with the past.

It will change your view of the future, inspiring you to approach it with hope and purpose!

While the future is believed to be a fixed, singular path, in fact, multiple futures exist, and Your Map To The Future gives you the science-based tools to explore and prepare for them. With fresh perspectives, Dr. Mesko illustrates why looking forward is crucial in addressing today’s most pressing issues, from climate change to artificial intelligence.

Through practical guidance, he introduces tools to help readers overcome short-term thinking, manage information overload, and become resilient agents of change. It’s a call to by expanding our understanding of the future, we can ensure it becomes a space where our best ideas, values, and goals can thrive either in your professional or personal life.

Dr. Mesko shows how using futures methods and adopting futures thinking can lead to becoming active shapers of tomorrow. By visualizing and working toward desirable futures, individuals and communities can regain hope, creating goals with concrete paths. When we adopt these methods on a larger scale, futures planning becomes a collective effort that strengthens communities

When it comes to the future, this book will help you transform uncertainty into scenarios, fear and anxiety into emotional resilience, and blind spots into visions you can look forward to.

223 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 1, 2024

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Bertalan Meskó

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Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD, a medical futurist, graduated from the University of Debrecen, Medical School and Health Science Center in 2009 with Weszprémy Award; and received PhD in clinical genomics in 2012. He has been running the multiple award-winning medical blog, Scienceroll, since November, 2007, and had over 4 million hits. He thinks medical education and communication between physicians and patients will be revolutionized with the tools and services of social media.

He is a medical blogger, a microblogger, a manager of medical projects in Wikipedia and an organizer of scientific events in Second Life. He launched the first university elective course in the world that focuses on web 2.0 and medicine for medical students. He has given over 300 presentations from the Yale, Stanford and Harvard University to the centre of the World Health Organization; and is a health 2.0 consultant for pharma and medical technology companies.

He was included in the Healthspottr Future Health 100 List and presented Webicina at the New York Stock Exchange in 2011 as a member of the Kairos Society.

He thinks medical professionals of the 21st century have to be ready to meet the expectations of e-patients and e-patients will change the way medicine is practiced and healthcare is delivered.

He is a member of Mensa International; and an External advisor at Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media.

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