Jane McGonigal for WSJ

Game designer and author Jane McGonigal for the Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Confidential.

“Simulation participants kept telling me, in their own ways, that pre-feeling the future helped them pre-process the anxiety, the overwhelming uncertainty, and the sense of helplessness, so they could move faster to adapt and act resiliently when the future actually arrived,” Ms. McGonigal writes in her new book, “Imaginable,”…