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Oct 2024
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How To Move Into The Future With Optimis...

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A Stanford innovation expert shares practical tips on future-proofing your mind.

Frederik Pferdt was Google's first Chief Innovation Evangelist, where founded Google's Innovation Lab. He's also taught classes on innovation and creativity at Stanford University for more than a decade. His new book is called What's Next Is Now: How to Live Future Ready.


In this episode we talk about:

  • Why we are so resistant to change
  • How to embrace the unknown
  • Why and how to develop compulsive curiosity
  • The value of experiments and why we shouldn't fear failure
  • What it means to have expansive empathy, and why that can help you develop a future-ready mindset
  • And how to identify what he calls your Dimension X—your own unique capacities


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Dua Lipa On: Radical Optimism, Falling On Stage, And "Writing Yourself Into A Good Idea"

#516. Robin Roberts on the Skill of Optimism

#274 The Case for Optimism | Dr. Jonathan Salk


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