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Imaginable How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today

Jane McGonigal

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

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The Jordan Harbinger Show

It is discussed in depth, with examples from within the book, and is the main focus of the discussion about imagining various possible future scenarios and preparing for them.

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It's why the scenarios in Imaginable are so extreme, right?

— Episode: 690: Jane McGonigal | How to See the Fut...

Episode: 690: Jane McGonigal | How to See the Future and Be...

It is discussed in depth, with examples from within the book, and is the main focus of the discussion about imagining various possible future scenarios and preparing for them.

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It's why the scenarios in Imaginable are so extreme, right?

the book is a logical next stop

the book itself is loaded with practical exercises

it's also extremely long so that's the other clue that you put a lot of work into.

it is like twice as long as a regular book but since it's an interesting read it goes by three times as fast

Episode: 690: Jane McGonigal | How to See the Future and Be...

It is the most recent book by Jane McGonigal, exploring how to anticipate future events and build resilience to navigate the unexpected. It was often cited as the source for many of the concepts discussed.

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it's why the scenarios and imaginable are so extreme right you know we're talking about an emergency sperm drive right since we were talking about that particular topic

you can read my future scenarios you can play my public simulations and prepare yourself

what I try to teach people to do an imaginable is to figure out how do you get your ear to the ground how do you build your network of information so that you are somebody who is hearing these signals of change early enough that you can think about them and adapt

and it's also extremely long so that's the other clue that you put a lot of work into.

it's loaded with practical exercises it covers the benefits of future thinking how to do it Jane is fond of saying four site is a human right if we forecast challenges we can start solving problems today rather than waiting to be blindsided by a catastrophe

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