Anything could happen next year. You’ve always known that intellectually. Now you’re alert to that, like a hunter who hears a twig snap behind some bushes.
Your senses are alive.
The coming year teams with opportunities. Will it also have unprecedented threats? Even if the world slides into prosperity and peace, that doesn’t necessarily mean that your life will too.
You’ll need to be smart in the coming years. Not just book-smart – the sort that impresses intellectuals at patterns. No, you need to be smart like a hunter, able to read patterns and spot clues that others would miss.
Patience? You’ll likely need plenty of that.
You’ll need discipline, too.
Without those, your plans rely too much on luck.
But there’s something else you need too.
As AI gobbles up a lot of the economy, the part humans get squeezed into relies more and more on this one thing:
Creativity.
Whether you’re a tradie or a bureaucrat, creativity has always been essential. It’s only growing more important. Creativity helps you complete your tasks. It also helps you find new work, resolve problems and spot the opportunities among the dangers.
And if 2024 is a year of infamy like 2020-21?
You’ll be grateful for how creativity will help keep you sane and housed.
It’s a shame creativity is something you’re born with and not something you can learn, huh?
Haha, yeah, right.
You are already creative.
You can sharpen your creative style.
And you can learn new, useful ways of thinking more easily than the typical doofus would ever realise.
That’s why I wrote Every Creative Way – a guide to the different styles of creative thinking, what they’re good for and how you can improve them.
Find it here: