Brian Keating: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner! Why I wrote it (#185)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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0:00.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:06.0	Welcome to episode one of Think Like a Nobel Prize winner, which is part of my
0:17.6	mission to convey the wisdom, not only the knowledge of some of the greatest minds in human history.
0:24.0	And I'm so honored that they really, you know,
0:28.0	provided me with this great gift, which I hope will be a gift
0:31.0	not only for my listeners, but maybe even for future generations yet unborn
0:36.7	to benefit from the incredible, incredible accomplishments but the incredible mental models, the wisdom, not just the knowledge, which I think is so important.
0:49.0	So I thought today I'd start, I'd read the first chapter of my book, think like a Nobel Prize winner now available,
0:55.7	everywhere books are sold on Amazon at least. And I want to start with the forward,
1:00.3	which was graciously provided by a 2017 Nobel Prize winner, Barry Parish.
1:06.0	And Barry wrote the forward along with James Altutcher, one of my favorite podcasters of all time.
1:10.9	James wrote the second part of the forward. I've got two forwards. Maybe that's an eight
1:15.4	word. But I want to read what Barry had to write and I want to encourage you to please
1:19.9	check out the podcast. And also don't forget to subscribe to my main podcast which is
1:25.1	into the impossible. That is available wherever podcasts are sold. So let me start
1:31.1	with the forward which Barry calls curiosity killed the cat but not the scientist.
1:36.0	What do the nine scientists in Brian Keating's book have in common besides having a Nobel Prize?
1:42.0	Perhaps the most interesting common attribute is their insatiable
1:46.6	curiosities. In different ways, curiosity is the common driving force the interviewees articulate in their quest to
1:54.4	understand the physical world. Each of these very successful scientists has
1:58.6	been strongly driven to understand an unknown and the unknowable.
2:04.0	They're very different strengths, weaknesses,
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