The Coaching of Anticipation I: Polystasis and the Dynamics of Anticipation

W Bergquist 2025

s sentient beings, we humans are always dwelling slightly in the future. In our relationships with other people, we have to anticipate what they are about to say or do. We predict their feelings and their attitude about us from moment to moment. When driving a car, we must anticipate what the car in front of us, beside us, and behind us are about to do. Without this glimpse or prediction into the near future we are dangerous drivers and not very skillful or graceful in our interpersonal relations. It is with some justification that we could label ourselves as homo futurus.