Best of: Exploration as an Expression of Our Humanity with Adam Steltzner

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In our interview with the “rock and roll engineer,” Adam Steltzner discusses how exploration expresses our humanity and is an entirely unique trait among us all. He believes it’s a fundamental part of our humanity and is just like art and theater in that it’s a “gesture of who we are.” Take a listen to hear how a NASA engineer views humanity and what makes us the way we are!

For 10 years, Adam Steltzner led a team of engineers inventing, designing, testing and retesting the revolutionary “sky crane” landing system that successfully placed the Mars rover, Curiosity on the Martian surface in 2012. Since then, he’s been awarded honors ranging from the Smithsonian’s American Ingenuity Award in technology, to GQ magazine’s Spaceman of the Year.

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0:00.0	And so the beginning of the brainstorming process is throwing ideas out and logging them.
0:07.0	Getting everybody's ideas. You don't know where the ideas are going to come from. In an organization, this is something I learned
0:15.0	from the laboratory. In an organization, it's very important to separate the ideas
0:21.0	from the people who hold them. That separation is important because you want to
0:26.5	be able to criticize the ideas without having the people feel that they are being criticized.
0:34.7	And so there's a sort of objective distance that is optimal, where someone can bring an idea
0:41.9	into play, but then allow it to be criticized or maybe even
0:46.6	criticize it themselves. I'm Srenny Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving businesses, written best selling books, and created
1:04.8	insanely interesting art.
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1:37.0	Adam, welcome to the Unmistakable Creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.
1:42.0	Thank you for having me.
1:43.0	Yeah, so I actually came across you by way of my publisher who sent me your book, The Right Kind of Crazy,
1:50.0	or the title like that I couldn't resist.
1:52.0	And not only that, when they told me what you actually do for a living,
1:55.7	I thought, yeah, we have to talk to this guy.
1:57.4	He's probably got a lot of really interesting and amazing stories.
2:00.1	So rather than give it away for our listeners,
2:02.3	can you tell us a bit about yourself, your story, your journey, your background,
2:06.0	and how it has led to the right kind of crazy?
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