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Book

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

Call Number

  • 158.1 M4787 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Spiegel and Grau [2022]

Physical Description

xxxiii, 393 pages ; 24 cm.

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.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Think the unthinkable. Look for clues ; Choose your future forces ; Practice hard empathy ; Heal the deeper disease
  • 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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