Being a prophet of the future is simple:

Just look at our own history and see where we are in the cycle.

Replace history’s leaders, plagues, issues, trends, wars and moments with the names today and you’ll come across as a master clairvoyant.

But we have a moment right now to finally break the cycle. The world is in disorder—that much is clear. There’s chaos, uncertainty and yet, a tremendous number of strands of hope everywhere.

Let’s pull on those trends of hope… the great things we’ve done… the progress we’ve made… and yank at them until they become our reality.

This could be the time we do something right.

Am I too much of an optimist?

To that, I say, we’ve seen what the world looks like in the hands of realists and pessimists, but we’ve never seen it in the hands of optimists.

Why not start now?