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this is smart people podcast podcast for smart people where we talk to smart people, but not

necessarily done by smart people.

Hello and welcome to Smart People Podcasts, Conversations that satisfy your curious mind,

Chris Stemp here. Thanks for tuning in. I'm going to make this one quick, not because I don't want to talk to you,

but because there's a lot of people in my house right now. And, well, it's noisy. I remember when

somebody first explained to me how the brain is a pattern detection machine and its goal is to

predict what comes next. In fact, one of the things it hates the most is uncertainty.

Now, if you think about that, then also think about the fact that everything that happens next,

every part of our future is uncertain.

And imagine how much our brain now pushes against that, how it plays tricks, how it doesn't

benefit us when it comes to thinking about our future.

Well, the good news is, as great as our brain is, we can trick it.

In our episode this week, we are going to hear from Frederick Furt, definitely butchered that last name,

sorry Frederick, who was Google's first chief innovation evangelist. And what he's going to talk to us

about is how to get our mind state into one that is future ready, how to learn to shape our own future.

How to navigate ambiguity and uncertainty with intention.

And how to start seeing our problems and our future uncertainty as profound opportunities.

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