War in Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic, double-digit inflation, climate disasters -
events we might have called unimaginable in the past are now reality.
How can we be confident about making plans?
How might we feel secure despite the future being unknown?
How do we learn to feel at peace with the unexpected?
World-renowned future forecaster, game designer and NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Jane McGonigal gives us the tools to imagine the future without fear.
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.
By learning to think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable you can better plan for a future you'd like to see. And by seeing what's coming faster, you can adapt to new challenges, reduce anxiety, and build hope and resilience.
"Jane McGonigal is unusually adept at anticipating events that most of us can't even fathom. In this eye-opening, actionable book, she teaches you how to widen your peripheral vision, extend your imagination farther into the future, and conceive of the inconceivable." Adam Grant, #1 Bestselling Author of Think Again
Jane McGonigal is the Director of Games Research and Development at the Institute for the Future and a New York Times bestselling author. Her work has been featured in The Economist, Wired and the New York Times, and on MTV, CNN and NPR. She teaches a course on 'How to Think Like a Futurist'at Stanford University, and has taught game design and theory at UC Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute. She regularly speaks to global audiences and has had over 15 million views of her TED talks. A former New Yorker, she now lives in San Francisco.
