You Should Have Her on the Sheft, Right?

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E gase: My book is dedicated to kelly mc gonegal, who lives six minutes in the future. She inspired me to hew sorto feed me new research and findings from the fields of psychology and nero science. What does she do now? She writes books and gives ted talks. E gase: Do you have any peculiar similarities with your identical twin? We both met the man we would marry in the year two thousand a,. And we're both with that same partner 22 years later.

Shermer speaks with world-renowned future forecaster and game designer, Jane McGonigal, about her book Imaginable in which she 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 by inviting us to play with provocative thought experiments and future simulations.

Shermer and McGonigal discuss: what a futurist is and what they do; counterfactuals: predicting the past; how could the present moment be different?; how can you imagine the unimaginable, or think the unthinkable?; how to envision what our lives will look like ten years from now; how to to solve problems creatively; how to make decisions that will help shape the future we desire; how to simulate any future you want; simulations as thought experiments as counterfactual causality tests; gaming as simulation of problem solving; the 10,000-hour rule for success; your present self vs. your future self and why most of us discount the future too much.