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About the book

The COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly frequent climate disasters, a new war \u2014 events we might have called \u201cunimaginable\u201d or \u201cunthinkable\u201d in the past are now reality.\xa0Today 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\u202fImaginable, 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\u2019s designed exclusively for this book, with the goal to:\xa0

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1. 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
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2. Develop the courage and vision to solve problems creatively
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3. Take actions and make decisions that will help shape the future we desire
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4. Access \u201curgent optimism,\u201d an unstoppable force within each of us that activates our sense of agency
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Imaginable teaches us to be fearless, resilient, and bold in realizing a world with possibilities we cannot yet imagine\u2014until reading this transformative, inspiring, and necessary book.

Source: amazon.com and https://janemcgonigal.com/

About the author

Jane McGonigal is a future forecaster and designer of reality games created to improve real lives and solve real problems. She is also the author of two\xa0New York Times\xa0bestselling books,\xa0Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World\xa0(Penguin Press, 2011) and\xa0SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully\xa0(Penguin Press, 2016), and her TED talks on how gaming can improve our lives have more than 15 million views. She is the Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the Future, a non-profit research group in Palo Alto, California, currently teaches the course \u201cHow to Think Like a Futurist\u201d at Stanford University, and is the lead instructor for the Institute for the Future's series on the Coursera platform. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Source: amazon.com and https://janemcgonigal.com/

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