563: Accelerating Your Career by Thinking Like a Rocket Scientist with Ozan Varol

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🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Ozan Varol discusses how to make giant leaps in your career by thinking like a rocket scientist.

— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) How success can hinder growth—and what to do about it.

2) How to turn worrying into productive preparation.

3) How rocket scientists see and use failure.

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— ABOUT OZAN —

Ozan Varol is a rocket scientist turned award-winning professor and author. He served on the operations team for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers project, and later pivoted and became a law professor.

He’s the author of Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life. The book is # 1 on Adam Grant’s list of top 20 books of 2020. The book was named a “must read” by Susan Cain, “endlessly fascinating” by Daniel Pink, and “bursting with practical insights” by Adam Grant.

• Ozan’s book: Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life

• Ozan’s podcast: Famous Failures

• Ozan’s website: RocketScienceBook.com

• Ozan’s newsletter: WeeklyContrarian.com

• Get bonus videos by emailing your receipt to Rocket@OzanVarol.com by April 30!

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

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• Book: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant

• Book: Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress by Christopher Ryan

• Past Episode: 072: Unleashing Simplicity with Lisa Bodell

• Past Episode: 176: How to Prevent Terrible Decisions using Red Team Thinking with Bryce Hoffman

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.0	With your host, Pete McChitis.
0:16.0	Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 563 with Ozan Baruel.
0:23.2	Ozan is sharing how you can think like a rocket scientist.
0:26.8	He knows he was one and how that really matters for accelerating your career, taking it
0:31.6	to the moon, if you will, or Mars.
0:34.4	Somewhere real fast, real far, is the metaphor I'm going with.
0:37.0	Zero, learn one.
0:38.0	How success can hinder growth and what you should do about it.
0:41.0	Two, how to turn worrying into productive preparation and three, how
0:44.8	rocket scientists see and use failure. So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript
0:49.6	or the links to ours we reference, you can expand this show's episode notes or
0:53.6	description in your podcast app player or visit awesome at your job.com
0:57.4	slash yep that's EP five six three and you'll see those goods right there.
1:03.7	Now here's Ozan's story.
1:05.0	Ozan Brule is a rocket scientist turned award-winning professor and author.
1:08.2	He served on the operations team for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers project and later pivoted and became a law professor.
1:15.8	He's the author of Think Like a Rocket Scientist, simple strategies you can use to make giant leaps
1:20.4	and work in life. The book is number one on Adam Grant's list of
1:23.9	top 20 books of 2020 and it's been named a must read by Susan Kane
1:28.9	and endlessly fascinating by Daniel Pink and Bursting of Practical Insights by Adam Grant.
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