Thinking Like a Rocket Scientist

the goop podcast

Gwyneth Paltrow

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

4.3 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

“Failure can be the best teacher if you know how to approach it properly,” says Ozan Varol, a former rocket scientist turned law professor. In his book Think Like a Rocket Scientist, Varol shows the benefit of approaching problems with a beginner’s mindset. He explains why it’s dangerous to conflate beliefs with identity and why it’s incredibly productive to ask yourself: What are my assumptions? His work is an unexpected and compelling road map for challenging the status quo, cultivating curiosity (which people lose over time), solving problems, and creating change. (For more, subscribe to Varol’s weekly newsletter. He is also offering bonus content to listeners who purchase a copy of his book.) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Elise Linnon, co-host with Gwyneth of the Goop podcast.
0:07.8	Today's guest is Ozon Brawl.
0:10.5	He's the first guest in our special series called Dreamers, which is all made possible
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1:15.2	Don't hold anything too tightly.
1:17.6	Just wish for it, want it, let it come from the intention of real truth for you, and
1:24.2	then let it go.
1:25.2	For me, our soul is like it's unbound, it's limitless, but we will use words to limit
1:32.1	ourselves.
1:33.5	When people stop believing that somebody's got your back or Superman's coming, we turn
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