From What Is to What If
Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
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Rob Hopkins
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The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it.
In these times of deep division and deeper despair, if there is a consensus about anything in the world, it is that the future is going to be awful. There is an epidemic of loneliness, an epidemic of anxiety, a mental health crisis of vast proportions, especially among young people. There’s a rise in extremist movements and governments. Catastrophic climate change. Biodiversity loss. Food insecurity. The fracturing of ecosystems and communities beyond, it seems, repair. The future - to say nothing of the present - looks grim.
But as Transition movement cofounder Rob Hopkins tells us, there is plenty of evidence that things can change, and cultures can change, rapidly, dramatically, and unexpectedly - for the better. He has seen it happen around the world and in his own town of Totnes, England, where the community is becoming its own housing developer, energy company, enterprise incubator, and local food network - with cascading benefits to the community that extend far beyond the projects themselves.
We do have the capability to effect dramatic change, Hopkins argues, but we’re failing because we’ve largely allowed our most critical tool to languish: human imagination. As defined by social reformer John Dewey, imagination is the ability to look at things as if they could be otherwise. The ability, that is, to ask What if? And if there was ever a time when we needed that ability, it is now.
From What Is to What If is a call to action to reclaim and unleash our collective imagination, told through the stories of individuals and communities around the world who are doing it now, as we speak, and witnessing often rapid and dramatic change for the better.
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“Rob Hopkins has long been a leader in imagining how we could remake our societies for the benefit of nature and humankind. His new book is a powerful call to imagine a better world. It should be widely read and appreciated.” (Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; lead negotiator, Paris Climate Agreement)
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Fantastic book!
- By Avie Kearney on 05-21-23
By: Ruha Benjamin
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Thrive
- Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way
- By: Dan Buettner
- Narrated by: Michael McConnohie
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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In the first book to identify demographically proven happiness hotspots worldwide, researcher and explorer Dan Buettner documents the happiest people on earth and reveals how we can create our own happy zones. Detailing extraordinary new discoveries and meticulous research on four continents, Buettner observes happiness in unlikely places and gleans surprising insight into what generates contentment and what it means to thrive.
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Around the world with circular reasoning
- By Andy on 05-17-11
By: Dan Buettner
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Results
- Think Less. Achieve More.
- By: Jamie Smart
- Narrated by: Jamie Smart
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Life can be a bit overwhelming sometimes, right? It can be difficult to clear your mind of a million different anxieties and focus in on the one thing you need to get done. The best-selling author of Clarity and The Little Book of Clarity goes one step further with Results by using his Clarity Coaching Model to help you de-clog your mind so you can make better decisions, prioritize, and focus on achieving those important goals.
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FOREsight
- Awaken Curiosity. Cultivate Wisdom. Discover the Abundant Future
- By: John Sanei
- Narrated by: John Sanei
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
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Following his first two ground-breaking books, What’s Your Moonshot? and Magnetiize, John Sanei turns his endless curiosity to the perspectives, perceptions and prejudices that prepare us for our illogical future. He breaks down the four types of seeing - HINDsight, PLAINsight, INsight and FOREsight - we humans use to guide us through the world and into the future. Then, with 20 shots of vivid, eye-opening FOREsight, he gives listeners the opportunity to peer into what that future could be and ask the types of questions that will allow us to embrace it with optimism.
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Driven, Distinct, Delightful!
- By Anonymous User on 01-03-20
By: John Sanei
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Creative Schools
- The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
- By: Lou Aronica, Ken Robinson
- Narrated by: Ken Robinson PhD
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Ken Robinson is one of the world's most influential voices in education, and his 2006 TED Talk on the subject is the most viewed in the organization's history. Now, the internationally recognized leader on creativity and human potential focuses on one of the most critical issues of our time: how to transform the nation's troubled educational system.
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The Answer to Why Students Stop Trying
- By Alison Sattler on 07-21-15
By: Lou Aronica, and others
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The Chaos Imperative
- How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness, and Success
- By: Ori Brafman, Judah Pollack
- Narrated by: Drew Birdseye
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
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Ori Brafman and management consultant Judah Pollack dramatically demonstrate how even the best and most efficient organizations - from Fortune 500 companies to today's US Army - can become more innovative by allowing a little unstructured space and "contained chaos" into their planning and decision-making. Through their consulting work, they realized that while structure and hierarchy are essential both in large corporations and small groups, too much of either can stifle creativity.
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a must read!!
- By Kelly Pavich on 05-26-19
By: Ori Brafman, and others
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Now You See It
- How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn
- By: Cathy N. Davidson
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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When Duke University gave free iPods to the freshman class in 2003, critics said they were wasting their money. Yet when the students in practically every discipline invented academic uses for the music players, suddenly the idea could be seen in a new light - as an innovative way to turn learning on its head. Using cutting-edge research on the brain, Cathy N. Davidson show how attention blindness has produced one of our society's greatest challenges.
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3 Reasons to Read
- By Joshua Kim on 05-06-12
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Questions Are the Answer
- A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life
- By: Hal Gregersen
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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For innovation and leadership guru Hal Gregersen, the power of questions has always been clear - but it took some years for the follow-on question to hit him: If so much depends on fresh questions, shouldn’t we know more about how to arrive at them? That sent him on a research quest ultimately including more than 200 interviews with creative thinkers. Questions Are the Answer delivers the insights Gregersen gained about the conditions that give rise to catalytic questions - and breakthrough insights - and how anyone can create them.
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All you need is the title
- By Bob Jordy on 01-13-22
By: Hal Gregersen
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The Power of Strangers
- The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World
- By: Joe Keohane
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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In The Power of Strangers, Joe Keohane sets out on a journey to discover what happens when we bridge the distance between us and people we don’t know. He learns that while we’re wired to sometimes fear, distrust, and even hate strangers, people and societies that have learned to connect with strangers benefit immensely.
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Not worth a credit
- By Eringatang on 07-24-21
By: Joe Keohane
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Do Nothing
- How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
- By: Celeste Headlee
- Narrated by: Celeste Headlee
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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In Do Nothing, award-winning journalist Celeste Headlee illuminates a new path ahead, seeking to institute a global shift in our thinking so we can stop sabotaging our well-being, put work aside, and start living instead of doing. As it turns out, we’re searching for external solutions to an internal problem. We won’t find what we’re searching for in punishing diets, productivity apps, or the latest self-improvement schemes. Yet all is not lost - we just need to learn how to take time for ourselves, without agenda or profit, and redefine what is truly worthwhile.
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I almost never leave reviews
- By keli wolfe on 03-03-22
By: Celeste Headlee
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We Rise
- The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement That Restores the Planet
- By: Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
- Narrated by: Drew Caiden
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Sixteen-year-old climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and his group the Earth Guardians believe that choices made now will have a lasting impact on the world of tomorrow, and they want to ensure a positive, just, and sustainable future. Beginning with their empowering story, We Rise explores many aspects of effective activism and provides step-by-step information on how to start and join solution-oriented movements.
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great topic good info
- By Great and powerful IDE on 10-01-17
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Uncertainty
- Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance
- By: Jonathan Fields
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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Jonathan Fields knows the risks - and potential power - of uncertainty. He gave up a six-figure income as a lawyer to make $12 an hour as a personal trainer. Then, married with a three-month old baby, he signed a lease to launch a yoga center in the heart of New York City...the day before 9/11.
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Distracting Narration
- By Mike on 01-03-12
By: Jonathan Fields
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Happy City
- Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
- By: Charles Montgomery
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our happiness? Are subways, sidewalks, and tower dwelling improvements on the car dependence of sprawl?
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Great book-terrible narrator
- By Amazon Customer on 02-04-19
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- Elan Sun Star
- 03-17-20
Incredible insights and review! Brilliant!!
I delighted when I began listening to this book.
Even though I keep up with some of the quoted sources and resources MikeEven though I keep up with some of the quoted sources and resources like sir Kenneth Robinson I was very delighted when I realized the book was long enough to be more enriched than I had even imagined The insights and examples in this audiobook are invaluable for reinventing and envisioning and then creating (co creating) a new more sustainable society and civilization...
The distionctions listed between creativity and innovation and the need for both was made clear in many colorful ways.
Please write and narrate more of these..I follow hundred and hundreds of new audiobooks every few months and this is at the top. it gave me some new directions that inspired and reignited my own passion to really sue these tools and examples to reform the bonds of community and sustainable yet practical community ..
Bravo!!
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- Susan O
- 04-07-22
A Source of Hope from Within
A much-needed antidote to the pervasive pessimism of so much of today’s world: the wonder of imagination! From its title through the afterword, this book inspires and uplifts with hopefulness made possible by reminding us to envision the future, our futures, to glimpse the flickers of possibility in our imaginations, then expand those flickers into lasting flames of hope that can power us to reshape our realities and so our world by focusing our consistent thoughts and actions on their achievement, having witnessed their possibilities and the potential for a better world for all. Thank you, Mr. Hopkins.
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- Skyleigh
- 12-15-22
Best book ive read! (Heard)
If you are wavering on listening, stop! Get this book! Dont hesitate! Make time to hear it out and tke some notes. What an amazing book! Also this was a text book for me so i wouldn’t have picked it up, but it needs to be broadcasted across the nation! Required reading for all politicians! Love it!
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- Kit Gambill
- 01-31-22
The book I didn’t know I needed
This book is wildly hopeful and inspiring and yet it never made me roll my eyes as pie in sky thinking. It has changed my outlook on the future and how to go about effectuating change. A truly holistic approach to a bright future.
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- Erin
- 11-23-22
Most Fascinating
This is truly one of the most fascinating books I’ve ever read. I will listen to it again and again, drawing inspiration from the author’s ideas for years to come. Just wonderful!
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- Courtney C.
- 05-11-21
Amazing 10/10 Inspirational
Can't recommend this enough, especially for creatives, visionaries, thinkers, dreamers, and volunteers. I also recommend his podcast.
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