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Get the Summary of Jane McGonigal's Imaginable in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly frequent climate disasters, a new war-events we might have called "unimaginable" or "unthinkable" in the past are now reality. 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...
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#1 Your identity is a powerful and influential driver that governs outcomes in all parts of your life. It defines the limits of your success, finances, and achievements. It controls the quality of your emotions, relationships, and self-worth.
#2 As a child, you were a blank canvas. You were impressionable, happy, and accepting. You had no reason to believe the external...
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#1 The term money laundering was coined in the 1920s, when gangsters would wash money to hide its origin. Today, the ideas and economics of money laundering are thousands of years old.
#2 Money laundering is the process of integrating the proceeds of crime into the mainstream financial system by hiding their origin. It is a sophisticated international game of intrigue...
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#1 The post-World War II Kilgore Committee of the United States Senate heard detailed evidence from government officials that American financial assistance had helped build the German cartel system, and the German Wehrmacht.
#2 The American business press was aware of the Nazi threat and the nature of German war preparations, and they warned their readers about them. They were also...
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#1 The problem is that the United States has been on a path to a crisis of confidence in the dollar, as trade deficits have been accompanied by perpetual free trade and globalism. This must be solved to secure the future strength and stability of the United States.
#2 The CIA has many names for itself. It is often referred to as Langley, after its location in McLean,...
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#1 I took Maura and Ciara to the beach house that would be our refuge for the day. We were ten minutes from the house, but Maura was sick, so we stopped to get some water coconuts. Within an hour, our friends were poolside.
#2 I began to think about what I wanted to do next. I loved working for IP, but I was beginning to think about what I wanted to do next. I thought...
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Book Preview: #1 I was a very young student at TAFE who shared a three-bedroom unit with two guys from school in an area known for drug deals and graffiti. I was there because I couldn't afford to live anywhere else. I decided to take control of the one resource I had available to me at the time: my mind.
#2 Your mindset is the most important aspect of your financial plan. It attracts...
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Book Preview: #1 The Fintech space, like the tech space a few years ago, is evolving at a rapid pace. Fintech companies, however, are typically not as large as their tech counterparts, and are thus less able to escape regulation.
#2 The financial markets are a highly connected system, and it is not possible to understand financial services regulation without a high-level understanding...
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#1 The steamship industry was one of the first large-scale businesses to be mechanized, and it was in the vanguard of technological change. It was also highly competitive, and soon became large in scale.
#2 The triumph of market entrepreneurs in steamboating led to improvements in technology. As one man observed, The boat builders, freed from the domination of the Fulton-Livingston...
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Book Preview: #1 The author's mother, born in 1950, was a girl. She grew up in Kenya, a predominantly white country. She was the youngest of eight siblings, and her parents had high hopes of having a boy to even out the family numbers. When she was born, she was a disappointment.
#2 We all have this feeling of fatalism from time to time. We think our life is going to end up like this,...
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#1 The world's poor are defined as those who live on less than two dollars a day. It is difficult to imagine what it is like to live on such a low income, and it is even harder to imagine how you would prosper if your income was just two dollars a day.
#2 Existing data sources are limited in their ability to answer these questions. However, after conducting several...
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Book Preview: #1 I was tasked with creating a workshop for 33 national leaders to find solutions to their country's most critical problem: the devastating nexus of insecurity, illegality, and inequality. However, I was terrified that the project would not live up to its expectations, and so I became suspicious, distrustful, and rigid.
#2 We all do it. We think and act as if the people...
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#1 The entrepreneurial state has a economic theory behind it. Outside the office of Google in Mountain View, California, the public road is said to be necessary for cars to drive into Google's parking lot.
#2 The most ardent recent partisan of statism and the entrepreneurial state is Mariana Mazzucato. She has been parachuting herself into the center of the debate...
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#1 The term colony evokes images of exploitation and marginalization. However, America was extremely fortunate in that it was blessed with rich resources and a relatively liberal regime.
#2 The Constitution created America's unique democratic society, in which the majority could not trample on people's rights to own private property, engage in trade, and keep the fruits...
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Book Preview: #1 One of the biggest mistakes makers when launching a crowdfunding project is to launch too soon. The Coolest cooler is an outlier, but it serves as a great example of how not launching today can have a significant impact on your dream project.
#2 The Coolest Cooler campaign was successful, and it surpassed the previous top-funded project, the Pebble smartwatch. It...
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#1 The change in investment is not primarily about information technology. It is about the rise of intangible investment, in ideas, knowledge, aesthetic content, software, brands, and networks and relationships.
#2 Gyms are a great example of how the intangible economy is changing the way businesses operate. In 2017, a gym's assets can be touched and seen, while in 1977,...
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#1 The modern world is a result of several transitions that have changed the way we live our lives. The premodern world was marked by a high degree of inertia and pattern persistence, as different climates and beliefs produced many specific outcomes.
#2 There were many differences between everyday diets in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, but they all had one thing...
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Book Preview: #1 The author and publisher have made every effort to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information contained in this book, but they assume no responsibility for errors, inaccuracies, omissions, or any inconsistencies herein.
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#1 The US brought back more than 1,500 German scientists and engineers after World War II, many of whom were responsible for developing the V-2 rocket. One of these scientists was Magnus von Braun, who was responsible for developing the V-2 rocket. He claimed that his brother Wernher was the inventor of the V-2 bomb.
#2 To understand von Braun and his willingness to...
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#1 There were three men on an island. They lived alone and could only catch one fish per day, which was just enough to survive the next day. Their island economy was based on this simple activity.
#2 The islanders were able to live a primitive lifestyle, but they still wanted to improve their living standards. They wanted to be able to catch more than one fish per day,...
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