The Problems with Science and How to Fix It | Brian Keating (Replay)
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🗓️ 2 September 2024
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Summary
What does it mean to go “into the impossible”? For Professor of Cosmology Dr. Brian Keating, it’s all about shattering the limiting beliefs around what a human being is capable of. In his latest book, Into the Impossible: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner, Dr. Keating explores this question through the lens of the pursuit of one of humanity’s highest achievements: The Nobel Prize.
Today’s episode is a wide-ranging conversation that touches on everything from the scientific method and first principles thinking, to the motivations that drive people to pursue the highest level of achievement.
[Original air date: 12-21-21].
Find out more by ordering Dr. Keating’s book here: https://amzn.to/3p3AKeT
SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
01:13 | The Power of The Scientific Method
11:41 | What is Truth, and Why Does it Matter?
18:17 | The Scientific Method: Inductive vs. Deductive
29:31 | Brian’s Origin Story
39:11 | Losing the Nobel Prize
47:47 | What Drove Brian to Aim At a Nobel Prize
1:00:46 | Brian’s Quest Takes a Turn For The Worse
1:09:53 | Into the Impossible: Behind the Title
1:20:01 | Disproportionate Returns & The Curse of Knowledge
1:29:48 | The Key to Pursuing Something Grand
1:32:59 | Scientific Pursuit, Happiness, & Fulfillment
1:50:14 | The Epistemic Approach to Problem-Solving
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| 0:00.0 | Science is you're continually proving that on who came before you wrong. You're showing there is no such thing as an authority, a god, a godhead figure. There's no one like that in science. There never should be or will be. And your job is to prove the earlier generations who were the paradigm of excellence and the expertise as well as Richard Feynman has another quote. Science is the belief |
| 0:21.8 | in the ignorance of experts, not the wisdom of experts. Dr. Brian Keating, welcome to the show. Yes, |
| 0:32.0 | it's great to be back here, Tom, on the other side of the table. I was going to say, yeah, we've got |
| 0:35.1 | the tables are flipped. I had so much fun being interviewed by you, and I highly encourage people to check that out. It's one of the more unique interviews that I've done, being able to ask questions that I haven't been asked before. It's not an easy thing, given how many times I've been in front of the camera. But I really had fun learning the way that you think, and that's where I want to start. So it'll be good |
| 0:55.7 | for people to get a little bit of background, professor of physics. I'll let you fill in more |
| 0:59.5 | details, but it's pretty credible to say that you were up for consideration for a Nobel Prize |
| 1:06.7 | didn't quite happen. And there's reasons for that that we may or may not get to today. |
| 1:12.0 | But the scientific method is something I become really obsessed with. |
| 1:18.2 | And it happened by accident. |
| 1:19.6 | So I was trying to figure out how I had taken myself from laying on my couch or honestly laying on the floor, trying to figure out how |
| 1:29.9 | is going to make my dreams come true. |
| 1:31.7 | And then finally learning how to build companies and all of that. |
| 1:34.8 | And I thought, you know, I've built companies across a couple different industries. |
| 1:39.0 | It's teachable. |
| 1:39.8 | It's repeatable. |
| 1:41.2 | And so I have a course called business decision making and I was trying to |
| 1:45.2 | to just write down what do I do and I wrote it all down I called the physics of |
| 1:50.3 | progress and I show it to the team and one of my employees is like you realize |
| 1:56.8 | this is a scientific method right and I was like what he's like no literally |
| 2:00.4 | step by step and I looked up the scientific method and I? And I was like, what? He's like, no, literally step by step. |
| 2:01.2 | And I looked up the scientific method, |
| 2:03.5 | and I realized, oh my God, this really is |
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