Replay: University of Adversity with Brian Keating and Lance Essihos (#333)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Professor Brian Keating tells listeners: “If you go through life and you have this expectation that you are going to have the wind at your back. You are going to be much more disappointed than if you expect there to be adversity, headwinds, friction, and flux. Then you overcome it or maybe it is not even there.” How to engage passion in aspiring astronomers The emotion behind winning a Nobel Prize Coping with rejection and humiliation The importance of meditation Finding meaning in the unknown Lance W Essihos is the host of the University of Adversity Podcast. He created this podcast to help people learn from stories of adversity, which has ranked Top 50 on iTunes Worldwide and the Top #5 in Entrepreneur Magazine’s 20 Podcasts That Will Help You Grow in 2020 List. https://lanceessihos.com/ Please join my mailing list 👉 briankeating.com/list for your chance to win a real meteorite 💥! Join me and ⁦Lawrence Krauss for an Onstage Dialogue ⁦at the San Diego Air & Space Museum Tuesday, Oct 17, 2023 at 7:00 PM: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-onstage-dialogue-brian-keating-lawrence-m-krauss-tickets-699430514497 Support The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast by supporting our sponsors: Post your free listing at LinkedIn Jobs https://www.linkedin.com/impossible Thanks HelloFresh! Go to https://www.hellofresh.com/impossible and use code 50impossible for 50% off plus free shipping! As an Into The Impossible listener, you can get 15% off a MASTERCLASS annual membership masterclass.com/impossible Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! https://www.jordanharbinger.com/podcasts Please leave a rating and review: On Apple devices, click here, https://apple.co/39UaHlB On Spotify it’s here: https://spoti.fi/3vpfXok On Audible it’s here https://tinyurl.com/wtpvej9v Find other ways to rate here: https://briankeating.com/podcast Support the podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Become a Member on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I knew it was a story that needed to be told it was such an exceptional thing
0:09.0	where millions of people found out about it millions of people were talking about it, it was on CNN, NBC, New York Times,
0:15.3	Wall Street Journal, front pages, and then it was gone. And people don't really realize that, you know,
0:21.2	maybe a quarter of everything that they read scientifically is wrong
0:24.8	you know it's just it's just the way science is and even if it's right it might be wrong
0:29.4	eventually in the sense that you know Isaac Newton came up with the theory of gravity and calculus etc that allowed
0:36.2	Basically the equations that govern how rockets go from earth to the moon more or less but he was disproven by Einstein it doesn't mean Newton was wrong it just means
0:45.6	Einstein had a more complete theory so our job as scientists is to make our current theories and ideas at a date in our lifetimes hopefully and that's the process of being wrong
0:56.2	and that a scientist needs to comfort her herself or himself in at all times and you always checking your motivation why am I doing this am I doing this for
1:06.1	petty humanistic reasons of just wanting fame and fortune as a scientist am I really
1:11.6	doing it for the right reason?
1:13.0	Welcome to this replay edition of Into the Impossible,
1:18.0	featuring your host Brian Keating on The University of
1:25.6	Adversity hosted by Lance Eseos. In this interview your host Brian
1:30.8	discusses his book losing the Nobel Prize.
1:34.7	Professor Keating reveals how he reconciles science with his personal beliefs about God and
1:39.6	religion and his own approach to overcoming adversity.
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