I have read with interest many predictions for the year, as if they could really serve to anticipate the future.
Among many valuable considerations, in practically all of them I have found the recommendation for prudence in 2016 -and the little angel dressed in white with translucent wings jumps out- suggesting me to pay attention. At the same time, different thoughts swirl in my mind – red dotted-tailed little devil and trident in hand – inviting me to recklessness and to ignore my surroundings once again.
When the last major financial crisis erupted in 2008, the evidence we had from around the world was not speculation. We were facing the strongest signals to take the course of caution. However, we chose to take a risk. We decided to ignore the storm, on a simple and well-known assumption, to happily take the advantage of going against the tide and detonate a new take-off in the early hours of the morning.
The consequences of prudence will always be good, and for this reason, I am surprised that predictions do not recommend it on a permanent basis. At the same time, in a futuristic vision, we would not be wrong to reiterate that change will occur at the fastest rate in history. And for this reason alone, it may be necessary to redefine prudence, since today it points to inaction and caution that suggests little or nothing.
Prudence today is to understand that there is no greater risk than not taking risk. Prudence is to move from a local and linear vision to a global and exponential one. The prudent thing to do is to anticipate, understanding that the world will be changed at great speed by committed, thinking and passionate citizens. Possibly by you. Certainly by us.
It is more feasible and prudent to make something 10 times better than to attempt only a risky 10%. Conversely, although in the same direction, it is more difficult to achieve a 10% improvement than a 10X. Any doubts? This is a concept for another publication, although possibly a good first step to the“moonshot thinking” (lunatic thinking?) that can make the difference in 2016, as the times demand it in the world and in Costa Rica even more so.
That being so, I also recommend prudence in the year that has begun. I am referring to the one that will allow us to move from the expected organic growth to the more accelerated and significant one.
