Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
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Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
Focusing on inputs has another upside. You avoid the wild swings of misery and euphoria that come with chasing outcomes. Instead, you become curious—no, fascinated—about tweaking and perfecting the inputs.
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
The reason for this approach is well summarized by a Sufi teaching: “You think that because you understand ‘one’ that you must therefore understand ‘two’ because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand ‘and.’”10 Components that otherwise function properly may refuse to play nice with each other after assembly. Put another
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Before announcing a working hypothesis, ask yourself, what are my preconceptions? What do I believe to be true? Also ask, do I really want this particular hypothesis to be true? If so, be careful. Be very careful. Much as in life, if you like someone, you’ll tend to overlook their flaws. You’ll find signals from a love interest—or a spacecraft—even
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Curiosity takes a failure, turns the volume of drama all the way down, and makes failure interesting. It provides emotional distance, perspective, and an opportunity to view things through a different lens.
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
WHETHER IT’S LAUNCHING a rocket, training for a sporting event, arguing before the Supreme Court, or designing a telescope, the underlying principle is the same. Test as you fly—subject yourself to the same conditions you’ll experience during the flight—and you’ll soon begin to soar.
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
Ego and hubris are part of the problem. The other part is the human…
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Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
In focusing on the facts in front of us, we don’t focus enough—or at all—on the missing facts. As the focal facts scream for attention, we must ask, “What am I not seeing? What fact should be present, but is not?”
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
Optimal creativity doesn’t happen in complete isolation. Breakthroughs almost always involve a collaborative component.
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
The hurdle to taking moonshots isn’t a financial or practical one. It’s a mental one. “Not many people believe that they can move mountains,” David Schwartz says in The Magic of Thinking Big. “So, as a result, not many people do.”20 The primary obstacles to moonshots are in your head, reinforced by decades of conditioning by society. We’ve been sed
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