Predicting the future: if you have the power to predict, you have the power to prevent things and also benefit from knowing things ahead of time. Reading people’s minds is not exciting to me like that; I don’t mind what people think about or what they know. Knowledge without action is wasted wisdom. I’d rather see their next move, which is the future, than see what they’re thinking, because they may act on their thoughts and maybe not. Most people don’t. Predicting the future is always a win.
Reading one’s mind is very close to predicting the future, that way you understand the mind and their next move of action, also you even get to know what they’ve done in the past and what they have in mind about the future