The Future Is How
The Future Is How
Podcast Description
Welcome to The Future Is How: Explorations on Creating Your Better Tomorrow—a podcast that invites you to actively shape the future with practical insights and inspiration. Hosted by Dr. Frederik G. Pferdt, author of What's Next Is Now and first and former Chief Innovation Evangelist at Google, Frederik shares insights on building a future-ready mindstate, drawing from his experiences training the brightest minds at Google, Stanford, and beyond.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores a variety of themes focused on futurism, personal growth, and societal development, with episodes discussing topics like the importance of a futurist mindset, leveraging creativity for social impact, the role of relationships in happiness, and utilizing sleep science for enhanced productivity.
Welcome to The Future Is How: Explorations on Creating Your Better Tomorrow—a podcast that invites you to actively shape the future with practical insights and inspiration. Hosted by Dr. Frederik G. Pferdt, author of What’s Next Is Now and first and former Chief Innovation Evangelist at Google, Frederik shares insights on building a future-ready mindstate, drawing from his experiences training the brightest minds at Google, Stanford, and beyond.
Bill Burnett co-wrote the number one New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life and
helped over a million people figure out what to do with their lives. Now he’s asking the harder
question: once you’re doing it, does it actually feel worth it? In this episode, Bill and I explore
why fulfillment might be a dead end, how Maslow got his own pyramid wrong, and what it really
takes to design a life full of meaning – not just success. We talk about wonder, community, flow,
and why the most meaningful moments are already right in front of you. If you’ve ever
wondered whether there’s more to life than crossing things off your to-do list, this one is for you.
Chapters
00:00 – What it means to search for meaning in life
04:11 – Was Maslow selling us something that never existed?!
08:31 – The two ways of looking at the world
09:53 – Why students are not burning down stuff anymore when protesting
12:49 – Reframing the Meaning of Life
17:40 – Where in the world are wonder and awe
27:05 – Do Communities help us avoid personal crisis and finding meaning?
29:01 – The crisis of loneliness and community building
34:32 – How you design a meaningful life in a world hostile to slowness?
41:18 – Fast Future with Bill Burnett
46:58 – Get the human part right and everything else is gonna work.
Links Bill Burnett
How to Live a Meaningful Life (Book)
Designing Your Life (Book)
Fully Alive by Design (Newsletter)
Links Frederik
Take the Awareness Test — How future-ready is your mindstate?
What’s Next Is Now (Book) — Frederik’s book on designing your future (HarperCollins)
8-Day Foundation Course — Build your future-ready mindstate in 20 min/day
Ask Frederik — AI trained on 20 years of Frederik’s work
NEXTletter — One question, two perspectives, one experiment (bi-weekly, free)
Live Events 2026 — See Frederik speak live
The Future Is How Podcast — New episodes every two weeks
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