994: How to Embrace Uncertainty, Discover Opportunity, and Shape the Future with Frederik Pferdt

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Sep 16, 2024

Frederik Pferdt, Google's first Chief Innovation Evangelist and founder of the Innovation Lab, shares his insights on embracing uncertainty to shape a better future. He emphasizes the importance of curiosity and kindness in navigating challenges. Pferdt discusses the power of positive reframing when setbacks occur and offers a handy trick to inspire follow-through. Highlighting a proactive mindset, he also advocates for empathy towards one's future self, encouraging listeners to make conscious choices for personal growth.

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INSIGHT

Inner Qualities Shape the Future

Focus on developing inner qualities like kindness, openness, and empathy to shape your future.
These qualities define how you show up in the world and what people remember about you.

ADVICE

Future-Ready Mind State

Cultivate a future-ready mind state by embracing optimism, openness, curiosity, experimentation, and empathy.
These qualities help you navigate uncertainty and see opportunities.

ANECDOTE

Improv Hiking Trips

Adam Leonard practices "improv hiking trips" with no fixed plan, embracing openness and curiosity.
This approach leads to unexpected discoveries and personal growth.

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Google Innovation Lab founder Frederik Pferdt discusses how to nurture the qualities that make you future ready.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) What matters more for your future than tech

2) Why to say “Fantastic!” when things don’t work out

3) A handy trick to inspire better followthrough

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— ABOUT FREDERIK —

As Google’s first Chief Innovation Evangelist, Dr. Frederik G. Pferdt helped shape one of the most fabled creative cultures in the world. He founded Google’s Innovation Lab, where he trained tens of thousands of Googlers to develop and experiment with cutting-edge ideas and taught ground-breaking classes on innovation and creativity at Stanford University for more than a decade.

He has also worked with dozens of international government agencies, organizations, and businesses ranging from the United Nations to NASA to the NBA. His work has been highlighted in Fast Company, Harvard Business Manager, Der Spiegel, and BBC news, among many other media outlets. Born in Germany, he lives with his family in Santa Cruz, California.

• Book: What's Next Is Now: How to Live Future Ready

• LinkedIn: Dr. Frederik G. Pferdt

• Website: FrederikGPferdt.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: AdultDevelopment.org

• Book: "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success" by Carol Dweck

• Book: "Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity" by Peter Attia and Bill Gifford

• Past episode: 267: Managing Self-Doubt to Tackle Bigger Challenges with Tara Mohr

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