Ozan Varol: Think Like a Rocket Scientist

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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When Ozan Varol was just 17, he moved from his home in Istanbul to the United States to study Astrophysics at Cornell University. When he got there, he sent his resume to a professor and was invited to work on the operations team for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers project that sent 2 rovers to Mars. Ozan is now a law professor and teaches others how to make giant leaps on Earth. Listen in to gain actionable insight on how to think like a rocket scientist.

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0:00.0	So we tend to assume part of our fear of uncertainty comes from this assumption that the decisions we're making are one-way doors.
0:07.0	In other words, the door opens one way.
0:09.0	You enter into this new room that you haven't been in before and you close it and there is no getting out.
0:14.1	So if you take a new job, if you move to a new city, if you give a shot at being an
0:20.2	entrepreneur and things don't work out as you hoped, you assume that you're stuck.
0:25.5	But that assumption in many cases is incorrect because a lot of the doors we're navigating
0:29.8	in our lives come with two-way doors.
0:32.0	So you can go in, you can have a look, and if you don't like
0:34.7	what you see, you can walk back out. And the example I give in the book is from Richard Branson and
0:41.0	his launch of Virgin Atlantic,
0:42.8	you know, launching an airline is an extremely risky
0:45.7	and a very expensive bat, and it looks like a one-way door
0:49.7	at first glance, but Branson took what looked like a one-way door and changed it to a two-way door by negotiating this deal with Boeing that allowed him to return the first airplane he bought if his airline didn't take off.
1:03.2	So I think, you know, as people are one way to get a little bit more comfortable with
1:07.0	uncertainty is when you are facing one of these sort of major life decisions, just ask yourself, is this a one-way door or a two-way door?
1:15.2	And if it looks like a one-way door, ask if your interpretation is correct, because often we're
1:20.5	so conditioned into believing that these rooms only come with one-way doors that sometimes a one-way door is just masquerading.
1:27.0	It's not real, it's actually a two-way door in reality. I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative
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