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It's the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey everybody how we doing I win but I have a pronounced tendency toward pessimism

that probably doesn't surprise many of you but I generally move into the future with a

significant amount of anxiety excitement yes but also a lot of fear.

For a long time, I've wanted to get better at this

at approaching the future with optimism

instead of just anxiety.

And today's guest has been very helpful in this regard.

His name is Dr. Frederick Fert and he was Google's first chief innovation

evangelist where he founded Google's Innovation Lab.

He's also taught classes on innovation and

creativity at Stanford University for more than a decade and he's got a new book

which is called What's Next is Now, How to live future ready.

We talk about why the human animal is so resistant to change

and how to overcome that and embrace the unknown,

why and how to develop compulsive curiosity, the value of experiments,

and why we shouldn't fear failure so much,

what it means to have expansive empathy

and why that can help you develop a future ready mindset,

and how to identify what Frederick calls your

dimension X your unique capacities. We'll get started with Frederick right after this.

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