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About the Course

Do you want to learn how to simulate the future more creatively and more effectively? This course is for you. Humans are the only living creatures with the ability to think about and make plans for the long- term future. Even so, our brains don’t always make it easy. Over the past decade, scientists have discovered a number of neurological “road blocks” to effective futures thinking. These glitches in the brain make it harder for us to accurately predict how we’ll feel and what we’re likely to do, when a particular future arrives. They lead us to make faulty assumptions about which futures are likely or unlikely to happen. And they convince us we have less power to shape and influence the future than we actually do – leaving us stuck in the present. In this course, you’ll learn how to overcome these obstacles so you can think about the future more strategically and creatively. You’ll practice simulation techniques for “unsticking” the mind when it comes to seeing what’s possible in the future and accepting how things could be different. You’ll also learn how to lead others through “first-person future” simulations, which have been shown in scientific studies to improve strategy and increase motivation and hope for the future. Along the way, leading futurists from the Institute from the Future will share some of their most challenging forecasts to help you stretch your imagination and improve your simulation skills. This course will ensure that you can put all of your new forecasting skills to the best possible use, by helping you nudge your brain toward more effective ways of simulating and preparing for the future. Many thanks to the Enlight Foundation and the Enlight Collaborative, which provided a grant to support the creation of this course....

Top reviews

MD

May 10, 2020

reat course, with a lot of new Information for me, very well presented. I really enjoyed it, especially the parts presented by Dr. McGonigal and the assignments that were necessary.

DL

Aug 22, 2020

Awesome, awesome course! I really wish I could take this course with Prof. McGonigal at the IFTF, but this was just as great! Thank you for putting this on Coursera!

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By Angel G

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Sep 21, 2022

Awesome!

By FIACRE R

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Jul 30, 2021

Excellent

By Charles P

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Dec 21, 2020

Excellent

By Akshat O

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Feb 11, 2021

Amazing!

By Paloma N O C

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Jun 19, 2022

so good

By Roland N O

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Jul 23, 2024

great

By PCPT C M G

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Oct 23, 2023

Nice!

By ayumi t

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Jul 3, 2021

bueno

By rashed a M

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Nov 17, 2025

Good

By Raul C

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Jul 6, 2025

bien

By Mona A A

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Jun 14, 2020

good

By Nguyen L T V (

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Sep 4, 2023

Gud

By Omar A O

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Oct 31, 2020

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By Rob J

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Aug 4, 2021

Doing the entire specialization I appreciate the tools of getting yourself or other participants to remove themselves from the current day setting. Some tools are really deployable on the spot, whereas others require elaborate preparation. I am more familiar and convinced of the latter before I took this course, but now I also see more clearly the potential of the 'on-the-spot' ones. So, rely less on design as a standard departure point.

By Ignacio V

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Apr 24, 2020

Interesting topics, although you definitely need to practice them a lot to fully internalize the concepts and familiarize yourself with all the practical tools etc,

By Mubeen S

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Jun 18, 2020

Very interesting and easy to use future thinking tools with a lot of simple concepts behind it.

By Gbanju A

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Jun 23, 2021

Good course. It has helped me in understanding future thing as a profession.

By Rik W

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Dec 20, 2021

very interesting mix, will watch en read parts again to recap ;-)

By Luigi G D

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Aug 2, 2020

Lots of good stuff to learn from this course.

By PLTCOL S E A J

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Jul 10, 2023

great job professor

By PRATEEK G

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Nov 9, 2022

it is a good course

By James M

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Nov 22, 2023

Excellent

By Turki B

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Mar 27, 2020

love it

By Fernanda G

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Jun 7, 2022

Good

By Fernando L

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Apr 25, 2020

Good