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191 | Jane McGonigal on How to Imagine the Future

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Specificity of Imagining the Future

The more vivid, specific detail that you bring to imagin on, the more a the more that this imagination or memory of the future can change how you feel and act to day. So for example, f youre trying to overcome normalcy by is so that, if you know, the next pandemic, maybe it's a tick born pandemic instead of a viral contagious disease,. tit's spread from ticks. If you have vividly imagined yourself pulling your socks up over your jeans, that's the new fashion, because everybody's afraid of getting the, you know, these tick bites. You're goin to get the dopamin hit from the next headline that you see.

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