Why read From What Is to What If?

Book cover of From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want

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Big ideas that just might save the world. the Guardian

A serious book on an important subject. Without imagination, where are we? Sir Quentin Blake

What if we took play seriously? What if we considered imagination vital to our health? What if we followed nature's lead? What if school nurtured…

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2 authors picked From What Is to What If as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Oona Horx Strathern

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I loved this book because it takes us beyond the “me me me” way of thinking about society to a more “we and me” based approach.

Community and consideration are often underrated and misunderstood in our society. It takes us back to looking at systems of accounting that count what matters.

From Oona's list on showing that kindness is profitable (and not boring).

O. E. Tearmann

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Most nonfiction books on social issues begin—in fact, some go on for about half the book—on the theme of what’s so bad about the problem being addressed. Most authors want you good and scared before they start talking about the good stuff. This book doesn’t do that. It opens, in fact, with a short story set in The World That Turned Out Okay.

And then it backs it up with real-world examples. Transition Town Totnes. Transition Streets. All sorts of projects, from all around the world. And throughout the books, it asks the same question again and again: why is…

From O. E.'s list on a future worth living in.