Jane McGonigal on IMAGINABLE: HOW TO SEE THE FUTURE COMING AND FEEL READY FOR ANYTHING EVEN THINGS THAT SEEM IMPOSSIBLE TODAY
\u201cWe should call no future\xa0unthinkable\xa0and no future\xa0unimaginable. We have to be willing to think about the hard things and ready ourselves for them, we also have to free ourselves from the limitations of the present so that we can find refuge in the future that we want.\u201d Futurist and game designer Jane McGonigal wants to help you change your brain with her new book,\xa0Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything \u2014 Even Things That Seem Impossible Today, and she joins us on the show to talk about when the future starts, Dator\u2019s Law (any useful statement about the future should at first seem ridiculous), normalcy bias, how our future selves are strangers to us, curiosity + empathy, mental time travel, the writers who inspire her, and much more with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer.
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Featured in this episode:
Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything \u2014 Even Things That Seem Impossible Today by Jane McGonigal
Rebecca Solnit\u2019s books
Emergent Strategy\xa0by Adrienne Maree Brown
Pleasure Activism\xa0by Adrienne Maree Brown
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Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional bonus episodes Saturdays.)