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Imaginable : how to see the future coming and feel ready for anything--even things that seem impossible today / Jane McGonigal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGonigal, Jane, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thought and thinking.
- Imagination.
- Resilience (Personality trait).
- Self-actualization (Psychology).
- Courage.
- Change (Psychology).
- Decision making.
- Forecasting.
- Social prediction.
- Twenty-first century--Forecasting.
- Twenty-first century.
- Adaptability (Psychology).
- Adaptation, Psychological.
- Thinking.
- Decision Making.
- thinking.
- decision making.
- Medical Subjects:
- Forecasting.
- Adaptation, Psychological.
- Thinking.
- Decision Making.
- Genre:
- Self-help publications.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 393 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Imaginable
- How to see the future coming and feel ready for anything--even things that seem impossible today
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Spiegel and Grau, [2022]
- Summary:
- "War in Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly frequent climate disasters--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..." -- Inside front book jacket.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I UNSTICK YOUR MIND
- ch. One Take a Ten-Year Trip
- ch. Two Learn to Time Travel
- ch. Three Play with Future Scenarios
- ch. Four Be Ridiculous, at First
- ch. Five Turn the World Upside Down
- pt. II THINK THE UNTHINKABLE
- ch. Six Look for Clues
- ch. Seven Choose Your Future Forces
- ch. Eight Practice Hard Empathy
- ch. Nine Heal the Deeper Disease
- pt. III IMAGINE THE UNIMAGINABLE
- ch. Ten Answer the Call to Adventure
- ch. Eleven Simulate Any Future You Want
- ch. Twelve Spend Ten Days in the Future (The Game).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-393).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781954118096
- 1954118090
- OCLC:
- 1291404851
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