# Imaginable: A Practical Guide to an Optimistic Future

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- Published: 2022-03-24T12:53:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Future forecaster, game designer, and _New York Times_ bestselling author Jane
McGonigal gives us the tools to imagine the future without fear.**

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 realising a world
with possibilities we cannot yet imagine–until reading this transformative, inspiring,
and necessary book.

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## Reviews

“An accessible, optimistic field guide to the future._“_
**_San Francisco Chronicl_e**

“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_**

## About Jane McGonigal

Jane McGonigal is the author of _Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and
How They Can Change the World_ (Penguin Press, 2011) and _SuperBetter: The Power
of Living Gamefully_ (Penguin Press, 2016). Her TED talks on how gaming can improve
our lives have more than 15 million views.

## WATCH: Jane McGonigal on gaming can make a better world

She is the Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the Future,
a non-profit research group in Palo Alto, California.

The book was recommended by [Krizna Gomez](https://www.justlabs.org/krizna-gomez).
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