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Imaginable How to See the Future Coming PDF-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

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Jane McGonigal, PhD is a world-renowned designer of games designed to improve real lives and solve real problems.

She is the New York Times bestselling author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World(Penguin Press, 2011), SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient—Powered by the Science of Games (Penguin Press, 2015), and Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything—Even Things that Seem Impossible Today (Spiegel & Grau, 2022).

She is also the inventor of SuperBetter, a game that has helped more than one million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.

She has created and deployed award-winning games in more than 30 countries on six continents, for partners such as the American Heart Association, the International Olympics Committee, the World Bank Institute, and the New York Public Library. She specializes in games that challenge players to tackle real-world problems, such as poverty, hunger and climate change, through planetary-scale collaboration. Her best-known work includes EVOKE, Superstruct, World Without Oil, Cruel 2 B Kind, Find the Future, and The Lost Ring. These games have been featured in The New York Times, Wired, and The Economist, and on MTV, CNN, and NPR.

A former New Yorker, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband Kiyash, twin daughters, and Shetland sheepdogs.

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Identification Number ‏ : ‎ B099ZQXPGP
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Spiegel & Grau (March 22, 2022)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 22, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1954 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 531 pages
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Book Name : Imaginable How to See the Future Coming PDF

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PopMythology_com “You may be here wondering if this is really a book that you want to buy and read. It is, and I would like to tell you why.

First, I just want to say that if the last two to three years have upended your life or, at the very least, jolted your sense of safety and normality, this is the book for you. I won’t go into details here as I don’t wish to use up space sharing the details of my personal story, but I have been completely transformed over the last two years and know in my heart that I will NEVER be able to go back to “normal” (nor do I even want to). As part of this transformation I have read obsessively, trying to reorient myself to this new person I’ve become and this new reality that I’m living in. Most of these books have been about various kinds of future risk factors (e.g., the climate crisis, the state of democracy, ever-widening wealth inequality, hyperpolarization, civil unrest, societal collapse, the list goes on…), and they have been very helpful and educational. But in the process of this quest to understand, something happened. Combined with traumatic personal events occurring in my life, all this obsessive reading about future risks combined with watching unprecedented events unfold both in the U.S. and around the world was sending my autonomous nervous system into overdrive. It felt like threats, real or imagined (and many of them were real because I lived them), were around every corner both figurative and literal.

Now, I do believe that it is important to be aware of, to educate oneself about, and to be prepared for a wide range of various possible future risks. This is definitely better than being unaware and unprepared, as Covid itself has hopefully proven. But if you’re someone for whom, like me, these risks aren’t just abstract concepts but visceral threats that you can *feel* in your body, that is all the more reason that you need to equip yourself, at the same time, with not just awareness but also the skills and strengths that can help you meet those challenges and risks in a way that’s beneficial to you, your communities, your society, and the people you love. This is a book that can help you develop those skills and strengths.

Let’s be clear. This is not a book about predicting the future—or at least that’s not its main purpose. There are books like that out there so it would be easy to confuse this as being one of them. It is not. Author Jane McGonigal does ask us to imagine a wide range of future scenarios, but the point of them is not necessarily to predict the future, and certainly not to predict it accuracy (although that can definitely happen in the process, as it did with past simulations that Jane has run which predicted Covid and many of the other disruptions we’ve seen throughout 2020-2022). Certainly, many of the scenarios she discusses in this book are, in my opinion, likely or highly likely to happen in some shape or form. But some of them may not. The point of imagining ALL of them—whether you think they are likely or unlikely, desirable or undesirable—is to cultivate mental flexibility and develop key skills that will leave you better off both right now as well as in the future, whatever it is that may actually happen in the future. If it’s a threat you’ll be better equipped to handle it. If it’s an opportunity you’ll be better equipped to seize it.

It’s conceivable that something that no one, not even the best predictive futurists out there, has imagined could occur. The only way that you can be prepared for such an un-imagined future is to imagine as wide a variety of futures as you possibly can, thereby stretching your brain’s ability to understand, react, and adapt. The more you practice the exercises and skills in this book (a) the more unlikely it is that you’ll be surprised or caught off guard by a future you never imagined, and (b) even if that happens, the more resilient you’ll be, the faster you’ll be able to respond constructively, the more solutions you’ll be able to think of, and the more you’ll be able to thrive in that future (even if you have to redefine what it means to “thrive,” as I believe we must if we wish to weather the rapidly intensifying climate crisis).

Ultimately, though it guides you in working with future scenarios, IMAGINABLE is a book about right now: to feel more empowered right now, to develop skills that enrich your life and your communities right now, and to be more prepared right now whether the futures that arrive five, 10, or 20 years down the road were ones that you were able to imagine or not. But if you read this book, and sincerely practice the skills and exercises in it, then the range of futures that you were NOT able to imagine will shrink, and meanwhile your sense of agency and efficacy in the face of any possible future will expand and grow.

And, yes, in the process you just might predict the future. :)”

Joshua Bradley “Seven years ago, I listened to Jane and Tim talk about her new book, “Superbetter”. I wrote later on Medium, “in 2 hours, this conversation shifted the direction of my life. The podcast had become the catalyst I was desperate for.”

Over the next six months I trained from zero on a single speed bike to ride a 50 mile grand fondo, while being incredibly ill from complications from Crohn’s Disease.

I spent two years figuring out how to train with dangerously high inflammation levels, a low red blood cell count, and several surgeries for Crohn’s. I gamed my way from SF to LA with ALC/Lifecycle as well as finishing the Hope for Crohn’s Triathlon and putting my disease into deep remission.

Seven years later, I again found myself cooking dinner and listening to Jane and Tim talk about being more resilient and empowered in these crazy times by harnessing an imaginable future. The inward looking to outward, reflects my own journey, I am now the cofounder of an education startup and about to publish my first cookbook for people with Crohn’s Disease.

Jane’s new book, “Imaginable” challenges the notion of an unimaginable future, giving us a toolkit and game chest to play and envision the future and how we relate and participate in it. She invites us to time travel, play, and prepare through engaging with what feels uncomfortable or scary. 5/7

If “Superbetter” was about gaming agency to overcome personal obstacles and building resilience and support, “Imaginable” expands these skills to how we relate and participate in the uncertain and often overwhelming state of the world.

“Imaginable”, like “Superbetter”, empowers readers like a spotlight cutting through the fog of fear and uncertainty and places us firmly in the present by playing with the future and inviting us to be “Urgent Optimists”. I’m looking forward to her 2033 book club meetup where we can share all that we saw and saw coming thanks to her work.”

“I preordered and PAID for Imaginable months ago! So yes, I am a huge fan of McGonigal and have been eagerly awaiting her next book for years. Just received on March 22, but just from a brief scan of the book I am completely blown away by Imaginable’s scope, research depth, and how timely it is in a world so desperately searching for better solutions to so many seemly impossible world wide problems.

I will soon update this unsolicited review with more details as I read this book.

Disclaimer & full disclosure: I do not know Jane nor anyone related to her commercially or by blood. I am a long time fan and I am the Tampa Joe antidotally mentioned in a few paragraphs of her book, Superbetter, page 253. I was not asked to write this review.”

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