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Jane McGonigal

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“Kind of like your ear to the ground so that you can notice change faster. One way you can increase mental flexibility besides just trying to pick up on these signals of change is just to vividly imagine scenarios that other people would describe as unimaginable or unthinkable. So like we're just trying to go to this future of sex with the neural implants or we're going to the future of where we can't trust video or faces anymore. When you put yourself into this future and you just What would it feel like when I look at my computer screen? What emotions am I feeling? What am I seeing that I've never seen before that overcomes”
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“Flex I'm glad you said that. So, urgent optimism does not mean thinking that everything is going to be good. It does not even mean imagining better futures. In fact, urgent optimism is often something we develop by thinking about, as you said, the next risk or threat or disaster. But the key is we have to practice these three habits and like we have to take it to a full cycle. You might be stopping someplace where we don't get actually it doesn't actually feel good yet. So we got to do these three things to feel good. The first step is mental flexibility. So mental flexibility, it's the opposite of having a fixed mindset or being stuck in assumptions that the future will be like the past. So to get mental flexibility, you're always looking for these signals of change. You're paying attention to weird stuff that's happening that maybe has never happened before. You're putting”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There are three habits that you can practice that build urgent optimism. By the way, the best way to do it is just to play these future simulations. I mean, that's like the fast track that's to cheat. I tend to.”
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“Choices, you take actions, the virtual world changes, you get better, you're improving your skills, you're achieving goals. This whole experience and journey of essentially building that sense of power that we have to impact the world and how the future of the game turns out, what I've tried to do in my work is figure out how do we develop that sense of power and the real ability to get new skills and achieve more ambitious goals in relation to reality and in relationship to the future so that we're not just feeling this when we play a game, but when we think about the future of sex or the future of food or the future of religion or the future of democracy, whatever we want to think about, that we feel that same sense of urgent optimism that I know for sure there are things I can do today that will impact how the future turns out for the better through my own power.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Urgent optimism that's actually a phenomenon I first identified when I was studying the psychology of gaming. So something interesting happens with people who play video games often is there's a certain neurocircuitry pattern that gets really strengthened and easy to activate that involves the reward system and the learning centers that makes us feel like I got this. It's like the neuroscience of I can do this and we feel more physical energy, more mental focus, more hope that something good could happen, more expectation that we can make something good happen through our own efforts and actions and abilities. And what my research eventually showed was that essentially every video game is like a psychological experiment. It's like a training ground to convince people that they have power, right? You go into the game, you make choices.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh my God. I love it. Okay, Tim, 100% I'm committed. I want to simulate this future. So we have a scenario club, a new scenario club at the Institute for the Future. It's like a book club, but you just come and talk about different future scenarios each month and we imagine ourselves and what might happen and the ripple effects. And I'm going to do this year a future of sex scenario for our scenario club, which by the way is open to the public. So I hope people listening who are like incredibly have their brain on fire thinking about this possibility that you have put in front of us. They should come to urgent optimists, which is our future imagination club. And they should join scenario club and come imagine the future of sex with us this year. You have planted that sea. I'm going to water it. We're going to see what it grows into.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We were to put that time or energy, I'm positing that we're not getting addicted to this stimulation. It's highly regulated in the way that like you can't, I don't know, buy more than X amount of stimulant medication, you know, it's controlled. I'm assuming it's going to be controlled if it's not, we're in a lot of trouble. But people just pouring their energy, their male energy, their female energy, their gender energy into whatever else they might want to do other than just trying to find a mate. It's going to be really interesting in a way. It's as radical as not having to work 40-hour work weeks and the time and energy that frees up for other things.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, I do think And it could change culture. I mean, if men are just acting differently, if women are acting differently, so much of society is right now oriented around finding sexual partners, are grooming our physical routines, our social encounters like our”
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“Want to be choked and slap and hit. They see sex as more violent than it traditionally has been. And so we've got this whole generation of young women who look at the imagery that's being consumed and produced and think like, I don't know, that doesn't seem like something I actually want to be experiencing. If we didn't have to be creating these visual representations, people might actually come back to sex if they weren't being shown versions of sex that they personally did not want to participate in.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All of the possible consequences, maybe some positive, maybe some negative, but what happens when we don't have to have physical encounters, essentially to have something? And we already, we're seeing that through porn. But the difference between neural simulation is it wouldn't need to use imagery. So I actually think it would be better in some cases to get an orgasm through neural simulation rather than through porn because a lot of the porn that's being created today is, I think, really, what's the word I want to use? There's a lot of violence in it that if you look at the research for why younger people are having so much less sex, the biggest reason that's coming up in the research right now is that women see the choking, the slapping, the hitting in the porn. It's become normalized and they don't”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wild scenarios because they're informed, right? You talk to so many interesting people that you hear these signals coming. So let's see. Okay. So first of all, yes, definitely. Porn is almost always at the vanguard of new technologies. It's one of the biggest drivers of sex imporn will drive adoption of new technologies. There's a huge interest in neural implants, as you suggest. I do think there is considerable interest in developing neural implants. First wave will be for mental health, for treating intractable depression and suicidal ideation. That will be the first wave. Second wave maybe sex and fun. And you could definitely imagine a society in which our orgasm needs are met by a neural implant rather than through Physical sex and what I find fascinating to think about is, you know, could we map out”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, I'm like taking so many mental notes as you talk, by the way, Tim, you are an excellent futurist. I want to invite you, you have visited me once at the Institute for the Future. I would like to invite you back sometime. I want to pick your brain for some of your.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Really, do something. Right now, we're just playing with ideas and we're thinking about how our actions today could lead to a better or a weirder or riskier world.”
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“Are the first people at risk here? But I think about that future because I'm often asked by technology companies to think about unanticipated harms of their products and services. They don't want to wake up in 10 years and realize they just destabilize democracy again or what have you. So all of these smart speakers that we talk to, right? And so we're talking to Siri or Alexa. We're the Google assistant. Well, that's learning a lot about our voice. And it may be that early adopters of those devices, if those systems get hacked, are at a new kind of privacy or security risk. The way we used to worry about our social security number being hacked, maybe our audio signature being hacked might become. But, you know, this is still in the realm of play. Like I still think this is fun to imagine. It's not as serious enough. It's not like, you know, the alpha Gal syndrome where like, oh, we should.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There is. This is great. I love how you're pushing back. The technology exists, but what does not exist yet is the data sets. Whereas we have facial information about virtually everyone on the planet.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, so it's not hard to imagine, it's like trust warfare, it's taking people that you have trust in and hijacking it to build your trust. They can do it. I mean, right now it's being positioned primarily for politicians as a way to make yourself look like somebody a person would want to vote for. You just slightly morph your face to look like someone's mom. Or for marketing to make spokespeople more relatable, 100% we're going to see that happen. I mean, like 10 years from now, you and I are going to be like, oh, can you believe that? So the game becomes, what do we do about it? A lot of people are interested in moving to a more of an audio culture and audio information culture because there's so much deep fake video and so much deep fake imagery being generated.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Social network pick your closest relatives or people you interact with most often on the network, use their faces to slightly transform the face of the cult leader so every single one of us is seeing, now I haven't seen examples of cult. They're just doing this in studies just to be clear. And then people trust, they say, how trustworthy does this person look to you? Well, the trust goes up when their faces are blended.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was really hard. You are hitting on something very important. I mean, we are definitely entering into decades of essentially cognitive warfare and we are definitely going to have to protect ourselves. One thing that I've seen that makes me, you know, pay attention. I want to be alert to this future is the blending of people in your social network with the face of this like artificial persona that they've so let's say there's a cult leader that they want to establish a following around you can blend that person's face with the face of a person's mother father romantic partner and create it's just the slightest tweak you and i would think we were looking at the same cult leader face but the algorithms can go to your”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Healthy and viable for the long run. And so we are going to see definitely ways to earn a living playing games, but it might not be in a crypto sense. It might be in a more traditional sharing revenue sense. And I'm very excited about that.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, one of the dilemmas that I pose unimaginable is would you take that offer? Let's say you can trade in your traditional crypto or traditional cash for 20% interest, 100% interest, one-time offer. I want people to imagine being ready for this wave of regulation, but also for this wave of potential financial opportunity. If you're willing to use a government's cryptocurrency, that too could be a big wealth generator. But I think people will be paid to play games through a completely different economic system, which is the game companies themselves getting into a revenue sharing system with players because we know you look at roblox people already getting paid for creating games within this gaming world or ecosystem. The companies are trying to figure out how to make gaming sustainable.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know where your money's going. China's a surveillance state, right? They're giving it away for free. Hey, try this new cryptocurrency. Here's a bunch of money. And they want to get more of this currency into circulation so that it replaces traditional cryptocurrency. And then they get the data and people have sort of been, I don't want to say lured into it.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's so many things about what you said. I'll throw two things out at you, okay? So one aspect of it is cryptocurrency, right? In Axes Infinity, they're earning money by essentially mining cryptocurrency as they play. There is definitely going to be regulation. Biden's talking about setting up regulation of cryptocurrencies. The scenario that I think is most likely in the space because of all this unregulated exchange of income and wealth is that governments will absolutely create their own cryptocurrency. Central bank cryptocurrencies and there will be incentives to not use what are now what we call like traditional cryptocurrencies that are unregulated or unattached to a national bank there will be financial incentives so in China right now they hate Bitcoin they're banning it they want people on a government cryptocurrency so they can track every transaction they want”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of having what we need, the emotional quality is this is not just a physical health intervention, this is a mental health boost to feel like we have what we need. And if we can create more abundance in the future, any way we can do that, we fight less. There's less sense of other people as being Competition. If we all have what we need, that's a world where we, I think we can be a little bit happier and nicer to each other. And I would like to live in that world.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, the government is actually, the US federal government has given money to these programs to test it. You would never know about it. I don't know why this is not more common knowledge. It's like hidden away in some farm bill. I mean, it's there should be more awareness of this. And then there are also philanthropists who are funding it. There's health insurance companies doing pilots because they think they can spend less money on healthcare if people if it's just easy. And you know what I love about it? It creates this feeling of abundance. So in imaginable, I ask people, just imagine you have this like tote bag with a QR code on it that's attached to your profile. So you can take this bag wherever you want once a week and just get whatever you want for free and just how good that feels. And we can imagine that when we go to a market, we can look around and just imagine, what would I? And the feeling of abundance instead of scarcity.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“These programs are being piloted all over the country. People who are interested can look for the food, is medicine movement. It's a coalition of food producers.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Let's see, what else can I tell you about? Part of being a futurist is you get exposed to new ideas and new evidence a little bit faster so you can kind of get excited before other people. So one of the areas of evidence, new evidence that I'm excited about is looking at programs that give free basically unlimited fruits, vegetables, fresh produce to people who want it, not means testing, so not just like poor people, not just people who are on food stamp programs, but just take a community, give them a bag, say you can fill this up, you can take this to any farmer's market or grocery, fill it up with whatever you like to eat, any fresh fruit or vegetable, it's totally free. Programs that give away this kind of food for free to people. see such a radical improvement in health, such a dramatic decrease in healthcare costs.”
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“The ideal in terms of you know how much productivity do we actually have in a day, especially for people who are creative or they're thinking, they're producing four to five hours a day is the absolute max.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I'm going to pay you the same amount of money, but for a shorter work week. And it's been tested on as much as 20 hour work weeks. I mean, I know you know all about working less, but they've been able to pilot 20-hour work weeks, which I actually think is.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It only happens when companies experiment with shorter work weeks. The only thing that actually leads to people spending time on themselves and each other in ways that benefit them physically, mentally, socially, and emotionally is when the boss says.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We honestly, there's no reason with automation AI, there's no reason we need to work this much. I mean, every time we've invented new technologies of productivity, economists have predicted that we're going to use that to create more free time for leisure and cooking and hasn't happened.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I won't try to be an economist on this, but there's a new understanding of money that makes it possible for us to really seriously imagine universal basic income, which I've gotten more informed about universal basic income and how it changes people's physical health, their mental health. There's less crime. I mean, it's a good thing for society. So I've been kind of, I don't want to say radicalized because I don't think UBI is a radical idea, but I'm on that train. I want people to work less and care more, right? Care for their kids, care for themselves, care for their communities. I've seen the numbers on the four-day work week, which I think isn't going far enough. I'm already imagining a three-day work week as a global norm because.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I've learned about modern monetary theory, which I think is super interesting. Have you ever had an expert on modern monetary theory on your show? I don't know if I have. I definitely encourage you to get someone on to talk about”
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“I shouldn't make light of this. People are disillusioned are more likely to be drawn to extremism and terrorism. So that is also a major risk. And I also find it exciting that we might be, you know, kind of like the 60s was a big decade for social change and just radically changing our norms about gender and race so fast. Maybe we are going to be able to ride the wave of global youth disillusionment to something that I think could be better. I've been radicalized a bit by, you know, the seven years since we last spoke. I definitely want to see big radical crazy change.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just young people saying, sorry, not going to get a full time job. I don't need to spend all this money. You don't have to pay me so much because I'm just going to buy less or live at home with my parents. That would make me happier. So it's like lying flat. Like I'm just going to lie down. And literally they lie down a lot, but it's more of a meme. This idea is that I just don't believe that this is necessary. this hustle, this grind, this global grind. It's not good for the planet. It's not good for our mental health. And I don't like it and I'm out. And so the idea that, I mean, on one hand, this is posed by the World Economic Forum as a global risk or threat because what if young people just don't want to do the work anymore, right? What if they don't want to buy the stuff anymore? What's that going to do for the economy? But on the other hand, I'm kind of excited for, well, it's also a risk because people who are disillusioned.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Hopeless or afraid of the future. And the number one reason that they gave for these feelings was confusion about government failure to act on climate change. Like they literally think the world is going to burn and they're not here for anything except radical dramatic action. And you can kind of see also little bits of this and like the great resignation in the lying flat movement in China. Do you know about the lying flat movement?”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't buy how we've organized society and I'm out. I'm not doing toxic productivity. I'm not doing the capitalist grind. I'm not going to live my life the way that global capitalist forces want me to. And if you want to look for evidence, where do we see evidence of global youth disillusionment? I don't know if you saw. There was a landmark study published in February of this year in the Lancet Planetary Health Journal. And it's the biggest study of its kind ever. They interviewed over 10,000 young people aged 16 to 25 in 10 countries, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, North America, Latin America. And they found that 56% of young people feel that humanity is doomed and they personally have no future. Two-thirds that they primarily feel anxious.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, and this one, I think there's like a silver lining to this threat. I'm actually kind of excited about this threat, if that sounds a little bit weird and twisted. So the number one most underrated threat was global youth disillusionment. So basically young people saying,”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Kinds of things happening, but I say, like, okay, well, what if you wanted to spend five minutes a day feeling more ready for this future? I mean, learn how to use an epipen if you don't know how to use one yet. That's a good one. Learn how to do a tick check. You can actually go to your doctor today and request a test. I think Lab Core will also do it. So it doesn't really matter. You know, if your doctor's into it or not, you can go to LabCorp and request a blood test to see if you have sensitivity to the alpha molecule yet. So you can know if you're at risk. And if you're not at risk, like great. Because again, the first bite usually is not a problem. But maybe you want to know that you actually have sensitivity to this. And that might make you try a little bit harder to avoid the tick bites in the future.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. So antibiotics don't work to prevent the sensitivity from developing, but one of the ripple effects that we forecast in this scenario is a run on epi pens because you might suddenly have. Going from hundreds of thousands of ER visits in the country for anaphylactic shock in a year to tens of millions of ER visits for this. And one of the things we talk about, well, entrepreneurs will start selling EpiPen holders and you can like wear it, strap it to your thigh or strap it to your arm. There's like a fashion that develops around the socks that we wear over our pants, like in the future. The Instagram influencers are going to be selling the socks that go all the way up over your pants. I mean, you can imagine.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You can eat crickets, you can eat poultry. I think it's still fine. I think shellfish is still fine, but it's funny in the scenario. I actually have one of the things that we anticipate happening is people who are convinced that Alpha Gal syndrome is a hoax. So they think it's a lie perpetrated by the plant-based industry to increase profits. it's the work of a feminist militant vegan global secret society called the alpha gals designed to scare people into adopting a vegan lifestyle and possibly lowering their testosterone by eating less red meat so we're already anticipating the misinformation and conspiracy theories you know what i was vegan for a while i'm not a vegan anymore so you cannot pin that on me i'm not currently um although i do i mean i don't eat red meats for whatever that's worth but you know i'm ready for this future”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One of those allergies where the more you expose yourself to it, your body gets angry every time, heightened immune response. So not just in the United States, but in other parts of the world, meat eating is on the rise as people come out of poverty and they want to eat more of a Western diet and more protein. So it's not just happening in the US, but we're seeing in other countries people are essentially setting up their bodies to be more reactive to this molecule. One of the things I talk about in the book is there is a preventive strategy if you were to start eating less meat or exposing yourself less frequently to this molecule if you did become impacted, you're less likely to experience such a severe reaction that you would need to go to the hospital. Now, not everybody would want to do that, but it's something you can do. It's in your power. I'm always looking for things you can do.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Climate change is the big driver right now of increased tick populations. Also changing how close humans live to the wildlife interface. So as we're developing into areas where we're up against forests and mountains and other natural areas, we become more in contact with animals that carry ticks. Another reason that it might increase is if you have a lot of exposure to meat animal products after you get bitten by one of these ticks. So the first time it bites you, you may not notice anything, which is why I say, you know, 33% of people in the southeast have already developed the beginning of this sensitivity. If you get another bite, it increases, but also if you just continue eating a lot of meat, you develop more and more sensitivity.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Areas they haven't lived before in New York City. It used to be urban parks were safe while researchers just found disease-bearing ticks and all of the public parks in New York City. Here in California, we have them on our beaches now, which used to be hanging out on the beach. The beach was a safe place. Now there are ticks on the beach. So it's like, this sounds terrible. Probably we don't want to think about it. We don't want to spend too much time thinking about a future where we're all living with this. I promise if we spend five minutes imagining it now, we will notice change faster over the next decade if we need to prepare for it. We'll be ready. We won't be shocked. We're not going to be in denial. We're going to be ready to help ourselves and others. So give it five minutes. Just imagine waking up and some of you are family members have this alpha gal syndrome or your employees do or students that your school”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. So, you know, in the scenario that I've developed around it, there's a meat is everywhere campaign public service announcements to let people know that sort of hidden animal products, but also what they're starting to see is if you have a lot of exposures to these molecules, even airborne meat can trigger a really dangerous allergic reaction. So if somebody's doing like a cookout, a backyard grill, even just smelling the smell of meat cooking. And so I'm just trying to imagine, you know, what happens to our eating lives, to our rituals and traditions, to the restaurant industry, to groceries, to the world if one in ten people on the planet are living with this. And it is, when we come up with scenarios, we're looking for signals of change, evidence that certain futures are becoming more realistic or more probable. Ticks are now moving into”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Affects more people. So the numbers are really rising. We're actually doing a simulation about this scenario starting at the Institute for the Future tomorrow. I'm like super busy planning to kick this off right now. And I mean, the signals look pretty significant in the United States, there are regions of the country, particularly in the southeast, where 33% of people have already received at least one of these tick bites and already have sensitivity to this sugar molecule that shows up in animal products. So it's meat, but it's also gelatin. So if you're eating gummy vitamins, you know, you can't do that anymore. There's gelatin in toilet paper to make it soft.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, and I will say, you are absolutely right. You do not have to dwell on apocalypse. So I write about a study unimaginable that showed that five minutes of vivid imagination was enough to overcome normalcy bias. So normalcy bias is when we believe that the future will be like the present or the past and we really underestimate the actual risk or likelihood of novel changes or disruptions, but five minutes of vivid imagination and vivid imagination means not just thinking abstractly about it, but like trying to go to the future in your mind like it were a virtual reality world where you can like look around. What's the weather like? Who's with me? What is my body like in this future? You're really trying to get in it. So one of the futures I think people should spend five minutes vividly imagining is a future in which this alpha gal syndrome, which I'm very sorry to hear that your mom has it.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Science, some trust and expertise, people know what's coming. The public health people know pandemics are coming before they hit us. The next one they're worried about is a tick-borne pandemic. Maybe it would be fun for us to talk about it because it's going to make us all allergic to meat and think about living in a world where we have meat allergies.”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Countries in the Middle East are trying to prepare for a future now where the world doesn't need all this oil. But then you have countries like Russia right now, which is trying to use gas and oil as leverage against the rest of the world. You can't sanction us. You need our fossil fuels and think about what might happen if we do make that sacrifice and say, you know, we're going to accept higher prices, we're going to accept radical temporary reduction in our carbon emissions to not be held hostage by this government. So that was a scenario we were looking at. It didn't all happen at the same time. I was trying to think if there's anything we said that was like super, super crazy. I'm going to come back to that because we had 10 predictions in Evoke and we had five in superstruct. But you don't have to be like a genius. You just have to pay attention and not deny reality. If you're willing to have some trust in”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Risk or threat where it's more likely than people think it's going to have a bigger impact than people think. And by the way, I want to share with you what was recently reported as the most underrated risk because I am totally, I feel it. I believe it. I think we need to prepare for it. So we were using that. And, you know, I always say like it looks in retrospect, like really amazing. We totally predicted the future. We had a whole scenario on supply chain disruptions. That was a big part of it. And that definitely happened. We had one of the scenarios called power struggle was about geopolitical disruption surrounding oil and gas and fuel, which, I mean, has sort of happened on and off. One of the things we were looking at in that scenario was what would happen to countries that rely on fossil fuels for their economy? And would they successfully transition their economy out like some kind of”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So there were really two big simulations we were running at the time. One was Superstruct, which I was running with researchers at the Institute for the Future, and the other was Evoke, which I was running with the World Bank. And I would say that one of the biggest inputs into deciding what scenario to simulate was a new resource that had just been published for the first time, The World Economic Forum published its first annual report on global threats, which they now do every year. But this was the first time they'd published it, and they were asking business leaders, government leaders, creative people, the smartest people they could find, the most powerful people they can find, and ask them, what's keeping you up at night? How likely do you think the things that are keeping you up at night are to happen? They ask really smart questions like, what do you think is the most underrated or under”
2022-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #579: 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 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT