Have you ever wondered why humans love to predict the future? When we talk about prophecies, we only think about the mystical ones like Nostradamus or the Mayans - we forget that we all do it. All the time. We bet on the outcomes of sporting events; we try to figure out optimal career paths; we forecast stock market prices - we seem to be animals obsessed with the future. Why?! At the same time, why are we often so bad at predictions? Why couldn't our experts predict the 2008 financial market crash or the great plague of London? We all need to be able to foresee what's coming down the road and our mental flaws obscure that view. We are all prophets, yes, but we are also flawed. Can we become better? What did the most accurate visionaries of human history - the ones who saw further into the future than the rest of us (Einstein, Kepler, Rachel Carson, or Michelangelo) - do differently? Can we learn from their strategies? What can we learn from firefighters? What happened when Centaurs fought Hydras? Why do we need to remove classrooms from schools and traffic lights from roads? In this book, you'll find answers to these questions.