AKINYEMI: The future belongs to those with flexible dreams

An “EQ Silver Arrow” electric concept car of Mercedes on display at the International Auto Show in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on September 10, 2019. Technology moves so fast it’s impossible to predict the future. PHOTO | AFP

When in 1976 the Apple dream was birthed in the garage of the Jobs family, little did anyone know what it would become. And that is a good thing. If you have the future all figured out and planned, the likelihood of you being relevant in that future is slim. The future belongs to those whose thinking develops as it progresses.

Overstructuring a dream could kill it. How do you take into account events and technology that could make your dream obsolete?