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Ask HN: I lack foresight. How to cope?

Hey hackers.

I'm feeling down because I'm lacking the basic ability to look ahead, to the point of maddening.

For example, today I was moving boxes to my car. And just now I realized that I left something I need in one of the boxes. I KNEW that I will need it. It just somehow didn't occur to me at the time.

This trivial example is basically what my whole life looks like. I keep plowing around, back and forth whenever I decide to do ANYTHING. Just chaos.

I've tried thinking ahead, whenever I do, I can only think of a monkey smashing two cymbals together. Everything I do, I do inefficiently because of it and things only makes sense in hindsight.

A software developer without foresight, what a dumb combination :(

Is there any hope for me? ANYTHING at all? Any mental exercises? Or is it purely genetics?

16 points huntedman 4 years ago 17 comments

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