There are certain individuals who are blessed with the ability to see things others just can't vision. As the construction continues, all I can see is an empty room. There are some wooden support beams framed in what should be walls. The floor has ugly splotches that used to be covered in carpet. A tangle of wires hangs through missing tiles in the drop ceiling.
That is not what the talented designer sees. There are certain individuals who can look at these (mostly) empty spaces and visualize patterns and shapes. They imagine bold color choices. They know that they want to put this desk here and these chairs there. They can see (at least in their mind's eye) what the future of this room will be long before it happens.
There are many other fields like that. Chefs are able to take a raw ingredient and know all of the ways to extract flavor from it. They can taste what the combinations might be even before they set up their cutting boards. Musicians are able to look at sheet music and play them in their heads. Coaches can see subtle hints that let them know exactly what will occur in the moments just ahead because they've studied hours of film beforehand.
Most of us are able to appreciate events after they have already occurred. At that point, it's obvious to everyone. It takes a great deal of practice and some skill to see things before they happen.
As we move forward, it seems as if that talent will be required by many more of us in the days ahead.
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