Do Good To Lead Well with Craig Dowden Think Like a Rocket Scientist - Ozan Varol
Ozan Varol is a rocket scientist turned award-winning professor and author dedicated to helping people reimagine the status quo. Rocket scientists have a specifically unique mindset and worldview that helps them succeed and Ozan's experience sparked the realization in him that with the right tools, the everyday person could leverage this way of thinking to take giant leaps. Ozan has been called a “true original” by Adam Grant and dubbed a “superhero” by Dan Pink. His work has been described as “must read” by Susan Cain and featured in the Wall Street Journal, Time, BBC, CNN, Fast Company, Washington Post, and more. Giant leaps in recent years are often attributed to the triumph of technology, but really the triumph is within the mindset that the impossible is possible. This week's episode discusses in depth the mindset changes needed to improve your problem solving, decision making, approaches to failure and more. Craig Dowden invites Ozan Varol to share what it means to think like a rocket scientist and practical ways to put this into use.
What You Will Learn:
1. What is Ozan's Scientific Method Mindset?
2. Living life as a series of hypothesis and trials
3. The importance of bringing an outsider into the conversation
4. Lean into uncertainty
5. All breakthroughs happen in uncertain times
6. Learn fast
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