The Potentialist I: Your Future in the New Reality of the Next Thirty Years

by Ben Lytle

Overview

Those of you living through the next thirty years will become the most powerful creatures that have ever existed. You will live long, novel lifestyles doing more significant, meaningful work. You will function as only geniuses could have done in the past. You will collaborate and share experiences in physical and virtual reality with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Innovations in medicine, seamless integration with automation, and unlimited Cloud computing power make it possible.

You will have the opportunity and the duty to create a decidedly better world. You will need to develop the wisdom to use this expansive power in advance of receiving it. Your success will decide if the future is a new age of enlightenment or darkness. Experience and maturity alone cannot provide the required wisdom fast enough. You will need to maximize your innate potential to accelerate wisdom.

The Potentialist: Your Future in the New Reality of the Next Thirty Years explains the first steps to achieve your potential and accelerate wisdom. You will be encouraged to discard potential-limiting mindsets, wasteful habits, and destructive lifestyles that caused unnecessary suffering in prior generations You will discover how forces of change create a better world—a New Reality—by breaking down the one we know. The pace of life will accelerate and become more turbulent. Institutions such as government, education, religion, news media, and many employers will be disrupted and become less reliable. But you will see the unfolding New Reality through the lens of opportunity instead of anxiety and fear.

This first installment in a three-book series is for those who will live thirty years or more, those and older and seeking to assist younger people through this unprecedented challenge, and leaders who are adapting organizations for the New Reality. Mind-blowing change is coming, and The Potentialist offers a roadmap to success.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781637551363
Publisher:	Amplify Publishing
Publication date:	09/27/2022
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ben Lytle is a self-made serial entrepreneur-CEO known for being ahead of the curve. He launched five successful companies, including two listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The best known is Anthem, today twenty-ninth on the Fortune 500 with a market value over $100 billion. He is a healthcare policy expert who served on state and presidential healthcare commissions, a governance leader with extensive public company experience, a senior athlete, world traveler, father of three children, and grandfather to eight grandchildren.

Ben's devotion to individual and collective human potential through accelerated wisdom guides his writing, speaking, entrepreneurial energy, and investments. He believes that people and organizations today underestimate the extent and speed with which they and the world will change. Time to prepare and adapt is being compressed, opportunities are being missed, and unnecessary suffering will result unless prompt action is taken. He wrote The Potentialist: Your Future in the New Reality of the Next Thirty Years as a guide to success through wiser, timely actions and decisions in the opportunity-rich, turbulent times ahead.

Table of Contents

Preface 1

Prologue 9

Part I The Forces of Change 31

1 Innovation-Resistance 35

2 Democratization 45

3 Demographic Change and Neutralizing Distance 61

4 The New Reality-Better or Worse? 73

Part II Skiffs and Mindset for New Reality Careers 89

5 The New Work and the Collaborative Revolution 91

6 Differentiating Yourself in a Democratized World 113

7 New Reality Relationships 133

8 Thinking Like an Entrepreneur 151

Part III Skills and Mindset for Life in the New Reality 169

9 Health 173

10 Wealth 187

11 Success 213

Epilogue 235

Index 237

Editorial Reviews

"Ben Lytle has written an important book. He reminds us that the only constant in life is change and that our ability to adapt and innovate will define our place in the world, both as individuals and as a nation. Based upon lessons learned as a successful businessman and community leader, Ben offers both practical and high-level insights worth the read for ordinary citizens, prospective entrepreneurs and policy makers alike." - EVAN BAYH, Attorney, advisor, board member and former two-term governor and two-term US senator for Indiana

"There are many excellent books on the changes coming in the next few decades, but Ben Lytle is the first author to tackle in detail how those changes will affect our lives and careers and how to act now to adapt and thrive. Ben's perspective as a proven entrepreneur and leader at the highest levels of business provides the perfect roadmap for growth and success in the new era of business and life."- JOSH LINKNER,
Five-time tech entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author

"The world is changing quickly. Technology accelerates the divide between the people who create hardware and software and those who do not. Divides force people apart and politicians have been ineffective at bringing us together. Ben Lytle saw how technological advances could facilitate management of healthcare information and the reinvention of health insurance. Throughout his career, he has transformed organizations by mastery of change and informatics. His employees, customers, and shareholders—all ultimately 'patients'—have benefited. In The Potentialist: Your Future in the New Reality of the Next Thirty Years, he shares what will happen next and why. It's scary and exciting. He provides us with strategies to stop, think and flourish in a future world that prior generations could not even imagine." - WOODROW A. MYERS, JR., MD, MBA,
Harvard- and Stanford-trained physician; former health commissioner for Indiana and New York City; former director of healthcare management of Ford Motor Company; former EVP and chief medical officer of WellPoint, Inc.; managing director of Myers Ventures, LLC

"Ben is someone who, simply put, never stops thinking about where we are and where we're going. He has made it his life's work to synthesize his knowledge and experiences into keen insights about the future. In The Potentialist: Your Future in the New Reality of the Next Thirty Years, Ben boldly lays out what the future will mean for the world of work and the expression of human potential." - JIM PARKER,
Former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services, health plan CEO, investor, and board member

"Ben's insights and experiences provide great wisdom and practical advice for navigating the coming years both from a professional and personal standpoint."- ROB ROSENBERG, Global Head of Human Resources, DHL Supply Chain

From the Publisher

2022-06-01
In this first installment of a nonfiction trilogy, a serial entrepreneur prognosticates life in the next 30 years.

Applying his own considerable personal and business experiences, Lytle briskly covers “The Forces of Change” in Part 1 of the book, moving on to the “Skills and Mindset” necessary for succeeding in a career and the development of strategies for health and wealth in Parts 2 and 3. The author begins with an intriguing “Prologue,” in which he describes numerous fictional individuals at various stages, envisioning what living in future years will be like for them. In Part 1, Lytle broadly explores four major themes around which he believes the future will unfold: “Innovation-Resistance,” “Democratization,” “Demographic Change and Neutralizing Distance,” and “The New Reality—Better or Worse?” While much of this content is speculative, the author does an admirable explanatory job of justifying why he selected these themes. Perhaps most provocative in this first part are the “ten new world realities” he outlines, such as “You will be superhuman, but will you make the best of it?” and “Life and career in the Cloud will redefine life as we know it.” Parts 2 and 3 delve into the skills Lytle thinks will be needed in a future world. Not surprisingly when it comes to the workplace, he believes collaboration, much of it enabled by technology, will set the tone. As for the individual’s role, the author invests considerable time discussing the concept of personal branding. Offering specific brand-building ideas, Lytle also urges readers to embrace an entrepreneurial mindset, regarding themselves “as a Product or Service.” In Part 3, the author focuses on three areas—health, wellness, and success—each of which he deftly discusses with a heavy emphasis on adopting the right mindset. He delivers sage advice on healthy living and managing wealth (not just acquiring it). He also defines the requirements for success “in the New Reality,” encouraging “the pursuit of potential as a central theme in life.” Foretelling the future is not an exercise for the faint of heart, but Lytle handles the challenge with both enthusiasm and wisdom.

Visionary and intriguing; a compelling read about future realities.

Kirkus Reviews