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Imaginable : how to see the future coming and feel ready for anything--even things that seem impossible today / Jane McGonigal.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Spiegel and Grau, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First editionDescription: xxxiii, 393 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781954118096
  • 1954118090
Other title:
  • How to see the future coming and feel ready for anything--even things that seem impossible today
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Introduction -- part I. Unstick your mind: Take a ten-year trip ; Learn to time travel ; Play with future scenarios ; Be ridiculous, at first ; Turn the world upside down -- part II. Think the unthinkable: Look for clues ; Choose your future forces ; Practice hard empathy ; Heal the deeper disease -- part III. Imagine the unimaginable: Answer the call to adventure ; Simulate any future you want ; Spend ten days in the future (the game) -- Conclusion.
Summary: "War in Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly frequent climate disasters--events we might have called "unimaginable" or "unthinkable" in the past are now reality. Today it feels more challenging than ever to feel unafraid, hopeful, and equipped to face the future with optimism. How do we map out our lives when it seems impossible to predict what the world will be like next week, let alone next year or next decade? What we need now are strategies to help us recover our confidence and creativity in facing uncertain futures. In Imaginable, Jane McGonigal draws on the latest scientific research in psychology and neuroscience to show us how to train our minds to think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable. She invites us to play with the provocative thought experiments and future simulations she's designed exclusively for this book..." -- Inside front book jacket.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 303.49 M146 Available 33111010860522
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

* 2023 Nautilus Book Award Winner: Rising to the Moment: Gold *

World-renowned future forecaster, game designer, and New York Times bestselling author Jane McGonigal gives us the tools to imagine the future without fear.

"An accessible, optimistic field guide to the future." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Reading this book is like sitting down with a creative, optimistic friend--and getting up as a new version of yourself."--Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author of When

The COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly frequent climate disasters, a new war--events we might have called "unimaginable" or "unthinkable" in the past are now reality. Today it feels more challenging than ever to feel unafraid, hopeful, and equipped to face the future with optimism. How do we map out our lives when it seems impossible to predict what the world will be like next week, let alone next year or next decade? What we need now are strategies to help us recover our confidence and creativity in facing uncertain futures.

In Imaginable, Jane McGonigal draws on the latest scientific research in psychology and neuroscience to show us how to train our minds to think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable. She invites us to play with the provocative thought experiments and future simulations she's designed exclusively for this book, with the goal to:

Build our collective imagination so that we can dive into the future and envision, in surprising detail, what our lives will look like ten years from now Develop the courage and vision to solve problems creatively Take actions and make decisions that will help shape the future we desire Access "urgent optimism," an unstoppable force within each of us that activates our sense of agency

Imaginable teaches us to be fearless, resilient, and bold in realizing a world with possibilities we cannot yet imagine--until reading this transformative, inspiring, and necessary book.

"War in Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly frequent climate disasters--events we might have called "unimaginable" or "unthinkable" in the past are now reality. Today it feels more challenging than ever to feel unafraid, hopeful, and equipped to face the future with optimism. How do we map out our lives when it seems impossible to predict what the world will be like next week, let alone next year or next decade? What we need now are strategies to help us recover our confidence and creativity in facing uncertain futures. In Imaginable, Jane McGonigal draws on the latest scientific research in psychology and neuroscience to show us how to train our minds to think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable. She invites us to play with the provocative thought experiments and future simulations she's designed exclusively for this book..." -- Inside front book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-393).

Introduction -- part I. Unstick your mind: Take a ten-year trip ; Learn to time travel ; Play with future scenarios ; Be ridiculous, at first ; Turn the world upside down -- part II. Think the unthinkable: Look for clues ; Choose your future forces ; Practice hard empathy ; Heal the deeper disease -- part III. Imagine the unimaginable: Answer the call to adventure ; Simulate any future you want ; Spend ten days in the future (the game) -- Conclusion.

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