Recommend reading this by David Rock
“Thinking present-forward is simply unreliable. The present is a noisy place—full of news, alerts, reactions, counterreactions, spikes, blips, and bubbles. All that noise makes it hard to distinguish the truly valuable insights from all the chatter. It’s like trying to answer a cell phone in a crowded room. What you need to do is turn down the noise of the present so you can sense the quiet signals”
