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Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for AnythingâEven Things That Seem Impossible Today
Maybe someday
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60/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Jane McGonigal
Publisher:
Spiegel & Grau
Date:
March 22, 2022
War in Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly frequent climate disastersâevents 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.
What The Reviewers Say
Imaginable is an accessible, optimistic field guide to the future, and McGonigal organizes it into three parts: Unstick your mind, think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable.
... does offer up neuroscientific findings, some more convincing than others. Her case might’ve been helped by a deeper look at the approach’s limits.
Illuminating.
Fascinating.
