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:
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.
