Future and Decision

We are constantly making decisions relating to our future. Often we find it easier to make decisions to help ourselves to achieve something in the future than to make decisions to prepare ourselves for the future. Why is this the case? It is because once we have a clear goal for our future, we tend to know several ways to increase our chance of succeeding, at least we tend to believe we have several ways to increase our winning chance, although we cannot guarantee a 100% success rate. Under such circumstance, we are making the future, this is an active behaviour. However, on the other hand, when we are preparing ourselves for the future, it is a passive behaviour. Before we are making any decision or move, we have to figure what the future is like. It is impossible to be 100% certain about the prediction, so we are more likely to be indecisive and have divisive opinions.

Preparing oneself for the future is not only difficult for ordinary people, but also difficult for the experts. People with expertise may be able to get closer to the truth, but no one can be absolutely certain about their results. Moreover, future is uncertain by itself, lots of factors are influencing the outcome of the future. Maybe the outcome of the future involves one’s wrong prediction; in other words, if he or she makes the “right” prediction and makes the “right” move, the outcome of the future may change and his or her prediction and move are still wrong eventually. Therefore, we should not be any surprised to see government or institute is internally divisive when making a crucial decision for future.