3 Approaches to Well-Being Toolkit
3 Approaches to Well-Being Toolkit
The future motivates us to reimagine who we are, what we value, and what we want to become. It offers opportunities to try new practices, experiment with new goals, and even expand the rules that govern our lives.
Three personal approaches to the future represent the spectrum of motivations that drive us to create or adopt strategies for health and well-being:
- Pragmatic—work within constraints to maximize outcomes, such as repurposing everyday technologies to maximize the value of personal health data.
- Utopian—seek idealism within current frameworks, such as using self-quantification technologies for greater self-awareness and, ultimately, better health.
- Speculative—create change by rewriting or breaking current rules, such as bringing food to beauty to sleep into mainstream health care.
These dissident approaches to future health and well-being will define how people live in abundant health information ecosystems over the next decade, as measuring even the most high-resolution details of our bodies will become routine. In this landscape, how we set goals, make choices, and navigate our lives as people, patients, and consumers will change radically—and demand new kinds of organizational responses.
This toolkit is a guide to jumpstart your thinking about how adopt new strategies to thrive in a future of abundant health and well-being data. Use it to imagine your own journey through the next decade.
How to Use this Toolkit
The toolkit walks you through a day in a Health Pioneer’s life in 2022. You’ll choose from six future Health Pioneers, each applying the pragmatic, utopian, and speculative approaches to their own health and well-being in different ways.
- Choose a challenge from the future Health Pioneer cards. Review how the Health Pioneer’s personal journey led to his or her position in 2022.
- Explore the strategy cards to see how your Health Pioneer is trying to better understand his or her health and well-being.
- See how your Health Pioneer employs these strategy in different settings of daily life—work, clinic, retail, and on-the-go—with the setting cards.
- Develop an innovation or idea to help the Health Pioneer reach his or her health and well-being goals.
How does this toolkit help you think about and make your own future?
Publication Date
June 2012
[Public Release: November 2013]
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This toolkit consists of four separate PDF documents. They can be downloaded through the following links:
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If you would like more information, please contact:
Sean Ness | sness@iftf.org | 650.233.9517