How to Live Future Ready with Frederik Pferdt

The Evolving Leader

In this episode of The Evolving Leader, Sara Deschamps facilitates a fascinating conversation between Evolving Leader co-host Jean Gomes and author and Google's first and former Chief innovation evangelist Frederik G. Pferdt. Frederik is on a mission to empower everyone to fulfil their visions for the future from shaping Google’s fabled creative culture as Chief Innovation Evangelist to nurturing the minds of students at Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design where he teaches graduate courses such as ‘Hacking Your Innovation Mindset’.
Frederik’s book ‘What’s Next Is Now, How To Live Future Ready’ was published by Harper Collins in 2024.
Other reading from Jean Gomes and Scott Allender:
Leading In A Non-Linear World (J Gomes, 2023)
The Enneagram of Emotional Intelligence (S Allender, 2023)
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The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production.

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1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. What were you doing at Google and what did you learn? (00:02:56)

3. Why did you leave? (00:05:47)

4. How can we face the acceleration of change and the acceleration of the future? (00:07:41)

5. What is the contribution that Jean wants to make in this world? (00:14:13)

6. Frederik, how would you describe your contribution to the world? (00:16:25)

7. Frederik, in your book you write about a 10-day meditation retreat that you went on. Can you tell us about that? (00:18:41)

8. Jean, what is your story about mindfulness and meditation? (00:21:56)

9. You have both distinguished between mindset and mind state in your writing. (00:25:13)

10. Frederik, in your book you refer to the future ready mind state and break that down into six key dimensions. Can you expand on that for us? (00:30:42)

11. Do you feel that optimism can be built? (00:32:35)

12. Frederik, what does the radical optimism conversation around the family dinner table look like? (00:35:21)

13. The idea of re-framing (00:37:16)

14. Can you share a bit about future self thinking? (00:41:26)

15. Diving deeper into curiosity, why is it so important that we keep hold of curiosity? (00:45:26)

16. Frederik, help us understand the pressures in Google (00:51:37)

17. Coming back to Dimension X. How could our listeners find and then amplify their superpower? (00:55:19)

18. What will your future mind state bring you? (00:59:16)