Position yourself. Don't wait to be positioned.
There comes a time, every so often, when the physics of the world changes. The substrate shifts. And the unprepared are existentially exposed.
They find it easier to keep rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. They know it's sinking, but the sheer scale of what else to do overwhelms them. So they keep acting like tomorrow is a reprint of yesterday. They know it's not true, but they're genuinely paralyzed by the paradigm shift.
Then there are those who refuse to take sink for an answer. They do everything in their power to think non-linearly. They reimagine, instead of rearrange. They don't just connect the dots; they interrogate the spaces between them.