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

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🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

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

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0:00.0	It's fascinating for me that our brains just love to see those dystopian futures, again to to protect us and say,
0:12.6	like, oh, I don't want to have that future happening.
0:14.8	I think it's going to be a wonderful future.
0:16.5	It's going to be a better future if you're going to engage
0:19.4	in training your mind, training your body, but also training your soul for the future.
0:27.0	The future is something that you create,
0:29.0	and it starts with your choices,
0:31.0	and it starts in your mind.
0:32.0	The future is not decided by something else or someone else.
0:36.7	It's created by you in every moment. Everybody has the ability to shape the future they want to see happening.
0:43.0	That's Dr. Frederick G Fert. He was Google's first chief innovation evangelist and founder of the Google Innovation Lab.
0:56.5	Frederick has helped shape one of the most fabled creative cultures in the world.
1:00.0	He's also the author of What's Next is Now, How to Live Future Ready,
1:03.4	and he's going to be sharing some of the wisdom from that book right here.
1:05.9	So you'll learn one, what matters more for your future than tech?
1:08.7	Two, why to say, Fantastic, when things don't work out?
1:11.6	And three, a handy trick to inspire better follow-through.
1:14.3	And if you want to read these takeaways all the faster, or just review afterwards, I recommend
1:18.2	you sign up for the Gold Nugget email newsletter, totally free that's available at
1:21.6	awesome at your job.
1:22.6	com.
1:23.4	I'm Pete McKitis.
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