# Future Orientation **Domain:** Psychology / Foresight / Human Development **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Future Orientation is the capacity to represent possible futures and let those representations inform present attention, preparation, and choice.** ## Mechanism and Practice A useful future orientation combines imagination with agency. It keeps possibility visible without treating hope as a substitute for action or prediction as certainty. ## Relationships [[wiki/Hope|Hope]] · [[wiki/Human Flourishing|Human Flourishing]] · [[wiki/Agency|Agency]]