Frederik Pferdt spent 12 years at Google, serving as its inaugural Chief Innovation Evangelist in California. Before leaving in 2024, Pferdt established the tech giant’s Innovation Lab and co-founded the Google Garage, initiatives that encouraged thousands of employees to explore new ideas.
How can you change your life?
As reported by CNBC, Frederik Pferdt in his recent book, ‘What’s Next Is Now: How to Live Future Ready,’ shared some points on how you can live a better life. He shared his experiences on how you can live a more meaningful life. Frederik Pferdt seems to have highlighted a few points such as embracing a ‘yes, and mentality, visualising your future self and spending time with yourself.” The points are explained below:
Embracing a ‘Yes, and mentality: Pferdt explained that most of our time we spend time saying ‘No, but,’ right?. But if we turn that around and have a little bit more of a ‘Yes, and’ mentality — and, that is inspired by improv theater, obviously. He believes that it really changes the dynamic of your conversations [and] of the teams you’re working on.
Visualise your future self : Pferdt also suggested that you should really try to envision how you want to be in the future. He told CNBC Make It “That is very powerful, because that really helps you with understanding where you actually want to go and influences your choices in the moment.”
Spend time with yourself : Lastly, Frederik Pferdt said that you should spend time with yourself through executing mindful practices. He suggested that you should keep yourself engaged through meditation and stuff like that.
Summing up to a good life
Furthermore, Google has long encouraged employees to meditate and even offered them courses on mindfulness. Meditating every day helps to keep him open to new ideas and steer away from negativity, Pferdt said.
He further added that “From time to time, spend time within yourself. It is really critical, because otherwise you’re just driven by your autopilot and your reactions instead of your responses. Our reactions are usually negative, they’re closed, they’re non-empathetic, they’re full of hate [and] blaming. Moving away from these is only possible if you do mindful practices.”
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