Imaginable by Jane Mcgonigal

Imaginable by Jane Mcgonigal

* 2023 Nautilus Book Award Winner: Rising to the Moment: Gold *

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:

• 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
• Develop the courage and vision to solve problems creatively
• Take actions and make decisions that will help shape the future we desire
• Access "urgent optimism," an unstoppable force within each of us that activates our sense of agency

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.

Jane McGonigal, PhD, is a world-renowned game designer and futurist. takes the game seriously McGonigal is the Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California, where her work on the future of games earned her a spot on the Harvard Business Review's Top 20 Breakthrough Ideas of 2008 list. Her work has been published in The Economist and Wired, and she was named one of the 100 most creative individuals in business by The New York Times. She's spoken at TED, SXSW Interactive, the Game Developers Conference, ETech, and the Web 2.0 Summit, as well as The New Yorker Conference.

Jane, who was born in Philadelphia and raised in New York, now lives with her husband in San Francisco. SuperBetter: A New Way to Becoming Stronger, Happier, Braver, and More Resilient is her first book.