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My superpower is I can see the future.

It’s made me a millionaire multiple times through entrepreneurship (I bootstrapped a game business when Facebook opened up the API back in ~2007/2008), and then later through investing in Bitcoin early.

My superpower also helped me raise 9 figures for nearly 100 businesses over the traders and saved my friends from losing tens of millions of dollars (maybe hundreds?).

I JUST realized today that I haven’t been in control of my powers for my whole life.

Seeing the future can also be a bane.

I was trying to CHANGE the negative future outcomes that I saw coming - but my superpower is SEEING the future not CHANGING the future.

I was constantly trying to correct behaviors & thought patterns, thinking that I could change things to avoid negative future outcomes.

While I have definitely come in at the right time for people in my life and have 100% changed their future, this takes a major toll on me.

Something simple like my daughter going over her screen time by an hour could put me into an anxiety state where I am envisioning the negative consequences of her continued overuse of screens years in the future … causing me to try to prevent a negative future from happening in the present, which usually leads to arguments because normal people don’t think like this.

Worrying is my cryptonite.

I am now going to focus on finding the tools to help me deal with changing the future in a way that doesn’t send me into worry and anxiety over negative future outcomes that don’t exist yet.

Does anyone else have this super power, and have you discovered a way to interface with normies in a way that allows you to have an impact on the future without harming the present?

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🐉AT ₿01 1y ago

Sounds like you have monkey brain. Just realize you have monkey brain and it goes away. Boost positive thoughts and ignore negative ones, you are just a normal human.

Brad Mills 1y ago

I’ll try looking into that

Bud 1y ago

I, too, reflexively plan as a cope for my fears. It doesn’t help that the “news” media saturates us with front pages of urgent problems 24/7. I’ve been largely ignoring news media lately, focusing more on things in my sphere of influence. It helps.

Anti-Ponzi 1y ago

Yes sir. It helps to journal what you’re anxious about to keep things in perspective. Take 5 minutes and jot it down in a note on your phone.

Emperor Kuzco 1y ago

I know exactly how you feel and my story is very similar. Made a lot of money during every down cycle or crash in the market. Owned a couple businesses by age 21. Money wasn't what made me happy because who I had become. I'm much more humble. Myself I just simply warn people and then I'm the asshole for pointing out that I told them so. It's not my job to try and save people from stupidity.

Faraz 1y ago

For me, it's exercise. Like, lots of it - 6-10 hours a week. It really works in quieting the mind.

Daryn Cavalier 1y ago

Not sure we're talking about the same thing but...

I've always had a heightened awareness of how present actions and behaviors lead to habits which have predictable future outcomes.

I would say the key is remembering the only power anyone has over the future is a present moment decision.

This perspective takes out the future. Focus on now. It's all we can do.

Nelson Inno 1y ago

You are not alone. Seeing it, and not being able to change the future for others outside your inner circle is a bummer. Most people are blind, and want to stay blind :/