
Discover the Wall Street Journal bestseller read by over 1 million people worldwide. "Non-Obvious" reveals hidden trends that transform businesses, earning 35+ international awards and influencing leaders at NASA, Disney, and Microsoft. What overlooked patterns will reshape your future?
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Have you noticed how most predictions about the future sound either wildly fantastical or boringly obvious? Here's a refreshing truth: the best way to spot what's coming isn't by gazing into crystal balls or crunching massive datasets. It's by becoming exceptionally good at noticing what's already happening right now. Think of it like this-a Norwegian billionaire named Christian Ringnes collected 52,000 miniature bottles over decades. Instead of displaying everything at once (which would be overwhelming chaos), he showed just 20% at a time in Oslo's Mini Bottle Gallery, transforming random objects into meaningful stories. That's exactly what great trend spotting looks like: taking the noise swirling around us and organizing it into patterns that reveal where we're headed. Most trend forecasts fail spectacularly. They're either too vague ("mobile will be important!"), too obvious ("people like convenience!"), or completely disconnected from anything actionable. The real skill isn't prediction-it's curation. It's about developing five specific habits that help you see connections others miss, then using a systematic method to transform scattered observations into powerful insights about our accelerating present. The future isn't hiding somewhere out there waiting to be discovered-it's emerging right now in the patterns all around us, visible to anyone who develops the right observational muscles and applies them consistently.
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Creado por exalumnos de la Universidad de Columbia en San Francisco
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Creado por exalumnos de la Universidad de Columbia en San Francisco

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