Mark Rober - Tricking Your Brain into Learning More, Working at NASA and Learning from Failure

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Connor Beaton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Mark Rober has made a career out of engineering, entertainment, and education. After completing degrees in mechanical engineering from Brigham Young University and the University of Southern California, Rober joined NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2004. In his nine years as a NASA engineer, seven of which were on the Mars rover Curiosity team, Rober worked on both the Descent Stage (the jet pack that lowered the Rover to the surface) and some hardware on the Rover top deck for collecting samples. In 2011, Rober’s iPad-based Halloween costume helped launch both his creative costume company, Digital Dudz, and his YouTube channel. His videos focus on creative ideas and science- and engineering-based pranks and activities. Rober is a regular guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! In addition to monthly YouTube videos he does research and development work for a large technology company in Northern California where he lives with his wife and son. Check out our Facebook Page and join the community. For more information about ManTalks or to join a ManTalks Mastermind: Click Here Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com  Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Did you enjoy the podcast? If so please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. It helps our podcast get into the ears of new listeners, which expands the ManTalks Community Editing & Mixing by: Aaron The Tech See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome guys and gals to the Manteau show.
0:12.3	I'm Connor Beaton, the host and founder of Mantalks.
0:15.8	This podcast brings together some of the best thought leaders, teachers, and extraordinary
0:20.8	individuals to
0:21.8	help teach and mentor you on how to be a top performer in life, love, and business.
0:27.9	Joining me today is a very special guest by the name of Mark Rober.
0:32.5	And while I was on vacation, I stumbled across a TED talk called the Super Mario Effect, How to Trick Your Brain
0:41.5	into Learning More. And of course, I was immediately, you know, as a child of the 80s growing up
0:46.1	playing Nintendo, growing up playing video games, and playing Super Mario and playing Mario Bros.
0:51.9	I was like, all right, I got to watch this. And I was completely
0:55.4	blown away by what Mark was saying. He was, you know, talking about this effect that had so much
1:00.9	to do with things like failure and success and resiliency. And I was just captivated. And so I
1:08.3	started to research him more. And I found out that he is an American
1:12.5	engineer. He's an inventor. And he is a huge YouTube personality who has a channel of over
1:18.4	three and a half million followers. He's best known for his YouTube videos on popular science,
1:24.9	do it yourself gadgets and creative ideas.
1:29.1	He has also done some really incredible things, which blew me away when I started to research
1:34.2	him, but he was, he's also a part of NASA for over nine years.
1:41.0	And he worked in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or JPL. So he worked there for about nine years and seven years. And he worked in the jet propulsion laboratory, or JPL. So he worked there for about nine
1:47.6	years and seven of those. Mark spent time working on the Curiosity rover, which is now on Mars.
1:54.8	He actually designed and delivered hardware on several of the jet propulsion laboratory
2:00.4	missions, including a bunch of acronyms that we talk about
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