AI and Healthcare How Vision Writing Changes Daily Decisions
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Oct 3, 2025 In this engaging discussion, Dr. Bertalan Mesko, a physician and futurist leading The Medical Futurist Institute, introduces the concept of vision writing. He explains how envisioning future selves helps clarify daily decisions, sharing practical examples like parenting choices and team-building games. Dr. Mesko emphasizes the emotional clarity gained by negotiating with your future self, making tasks feel more manageable. His innovative approach encourages listeners to harness their imagination for better decision-making today.
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Use Future Perspective To Generate Concrete Futures
- Vision writing asks you to adopt the perspective of someone in the future to generate concrete narratives about possible worlds.
- This method uses storytelling to surface actionable details like agendas, keynote ideas, and program elements for imagined futures.
Parenting Evaluated By Future Children
- Bertalan Mesko used vision writing to imagine his children discussing him ten years later to evaluate his parenting choices today.
- The exercise clarified which present experiences he should prioritize to become the father he hopes they'll remember.
Narrative Power Trumps Methodical Rigor
- Vision writing is less systematic than forecasting or scenario analysis but offers a powerful psychological experience of inhabiting future selves.
- Readers valued the concept of the future self more than technical methods because it translated into everyday decision-making clarity.