Jane McGonigal — How She Predicted COVID in 2010, Becoming the Expert of Your Own Future, Trust Warfare, the 10-Year Winter, and How to Cultivate Optimism | Brought to you by Dry Farm Wines natural wines designed for fewer hangovers (http://dryfarmwines.com/tim), Vuori comfortable and durable performance apparel (http://vuoriclothing.com/Tim), and Helix Sleep premium mattresses (http://helixsleep.com/tim). Jane McGonigal (@avantgame) is a future-forecaster and a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games that improve real lives and solve real problems. She’s the Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the Future and the lead instructor for their series on the Coursera platform. She also teaches the course How to Think Like a Futurist at Stanford University. Jane is the New York Times bestselling author of Reality Is Broken and SuperBetter, and the forthcoming Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything—Even Things That Seem Impossible Today. Her TED talks on how games can make a better world and the game that can give you 10 extra years of life have more than 15 million views. Her innovative games and ideas have been recognized by the World Economic Forum, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, MIT Technology Review, O magazine, and The New York Times, among many others. Please enjoy! SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/1dSzTkW LINK TO ALL SHOW TRANSCRIPTS: https://tim.blog/2018/09/20/all-transcripts-from-the-tim-ferriss-show/ About Tim Ferriss: Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 500 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running. Connect with Tim Ferriss: Sign up for "5-Bullet Friday" (Tim's free weekly email newsletter): https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-yt/ Visit the Tim Ferriss PODCAST: https://tim.blog/podcast/ Visit the Tim Ferriss BLOG: https://tim.blog/ Follow Tim Ferriss on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/tferriss/ Follow Tim Ferriss on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/timferriss/ Like Tim Ferriss on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TimFerriss/ Start [00:00] Video games to play before bedtime, plus a Tetris follow-up [01:44] Here’s how to deal with waking up for a few hours in the middle of the night [07:08] Why is Tetris uniquely effective at treating PTSD? [8:32] A spooky prediction from Jane's social simulation of 2010 [10:22] Further predictions from this 2010 simulation [17:37] A threat with a silver lining, plus, what has “radicalized” Jane? [35:16] Predictions for the future of cryptocurrency and play-to-earn gaming platforms [45:15] Cult recruitment and podcasting in the age of trust warfare [49:45] Pornography always finds a way [56:35] What is urgent optimism? [1:07:17] Future Fridays and habits to cultivate to feel good about an uncertain future [1:09:55] Preparing for tomorrow [1:13:57] Planning for total electrical blackout or climate migration [1:18:48] How to measure your urgent optimism [1:29:45] An Urgent Optimist group activity to better spot the future’s hopeful signals [1:40:43] Journaling from the future as a form of specificity training [1:41:52] Alvin Toffler: “It’s more important to be imaginative and insightful than to be 100 percent right." [1:46:16] Will climate-change solutions rely more on socio- or techno-optimism? [1:51:04] Solving the world’s biggest problems through incentives [1:57:33] Further resources, audience asks, and final thoughts [2:01:35]