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title: Training Practice for Futurists
description: I’ve listened to a politician recently detailing his morning media diet
  of newsletters, clippings, etc. It helps him feel prepared for the day “getting
  in front of the wave”. 
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last_updated: 03-May-22
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I’ve listened to a politician recently detailing his morning media diet of newsletters, clippings, etc. It helps him feel prepared for the day (“getting in front of the wave”). 

It made me wonder: as a futurist/futures researcher, what could my morning routine be like to prepare me for the day?

-   Thinking through my meetings and working sessions and preparing whatever I can, which would mostly be writing notes?
-   Reading trend stuff on the topics, I’m currently working on?
-   Doing a theory session to advance the methods and approaches I plan to use throughout the day?
-   Doing a classic brain dump/Morning Pages kind of session to empty my brain and make space for fresh thinking?
-   Go for a run or a workout because it helps most with energy and focus?

This train of thought connects to a similar one, which has been on my mind recently, prompted by this quote:

> What is it you do to train that is comparable to a pianist practicing scales?
> 
> [Tyler Cowen](https://kulesa.substack.com/p/tyler-cowen-is-the-best-curator-of?s=r)

The bigger question I feel lurking behind these Ferriss-esque questions about my morning routine is what I need to do my work and get better at it. 

-   A broader horizon?
-   An excellent toolbox of methods?
-   A critical mindset?
-   A fine-tuned set of scanning sources?
-   …

Obviously, it’s all of the above which triggers the idea to use different days of the week to focus on each aspect.

Andy Matuschak has some [interesting notes](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z4qhD8UwNAmJDdJUC36BUGp5PEUfgfzZXvkhB) about deliberate practice for knowledge work or more like the lack of it.

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