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the superpower that looks exactly like overthinking until the day it saves your life
means The ability to anticipate and prepare for what's likely to happen before it actually does.
from A plain English compound, stitched together from 'fore-' (before, ahead) and 'sight' — literally 'seeing beforehand.' It's an old Germanic build, with cousins like Old Norse 'forsjá,' and it sits in a tidy family with 'foresee,' 'forewarn,' and 'foretell,' all of which put the future in front of you. The 'sight' part traces back to the same root as 'see,' so foresight is, at heart, the eye aimed forward in time.
- brain cost
- Imagining the future uses the same circuits as memory
- word origin
- From Old English, literally seeing-before
- animal version
- Squirrels bury nuts for winters they can't yet feel
- legal weight
- Negligence law hinges on what you should have foreseen
- its enemy
- Hindsight, which insists it knew all along
the good judgment project — philip tetlock's forecasting research program that has tracked prediction accuracy since 2011
the long now foundation — organization founded in 1996 focused on long-term thinking and 10,000-year perspectives