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Name: Think Like a Rocket Scientist
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Author: Ozan Varol

Ozan Varol

Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life

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What’s in it for me? Learn powerful scientific strategies to help make your dreams a reality.

Have you lowered the bar on what you think you can achieve? Or worse, have you resigned yourself to mediocrity? Perhaps you’re frustrated that you can’t come up with a solution that’d propel your business to a new level. Or maybe you’ve told yourself that your aspiration is really just a pipe dream. And why wouldn’t you? Isn’t success exclusively for the elite geniuses of the world, or people with enough money to follow their hearts?

The truth is, everyone is capable of achieving a breakthrough, whether it’s that brilliant idea for a new product, scoring that promotion, or even learning a new skill. What differentiates those who make this happen from those who don’t isn’t necessarily intelligence or money, it’s mindset. Once you change how you approach problems and challenges, you can make giant leaps in all areas of your life. And to make that change, you need to learn how to think like a rocket scientist.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

the secret ingredient to being original;
why you should be bored more often; and
what astronauts and comedians have in common.

Changing your attitude towards uncertainty opens you up to discovery.

The engineers and scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have a strange tradition. At crucial moments in every space mission, they chomp on peanuts. This phenomenon began when a Ranger spacecraft successfully launched after a long run of failures. An engineer had brought a bag of peanuts into mission control that day. Since then, peanuts are eaten at every launch to ward off bad luck.

This shows that even the most scientific among us fear uncertainty. That’s why we engage in strange rituals – like eating peanuts or wearing our lucky jeans – to regain a sense of control. We can’t help feeling this way. Fear of the unknown helped keep our ancestors safe from saber-toothed tigers. But when we avoid uncertainty altogether, we close ourselves off to new possibilities.

The key message here is: Changing your attitude towards uncertainty opens you up to discovery.

Scientists don’t see uncertainty as something to fear. When faced with a dark, shadow-filled room, they don’t turn away like most of us. They poke around in it until they find a light switch. Once that light’s on, they can evaluate what they’ve found. There might be something curious in the room, or there may be another door leading to yet another mystery.

Uncertainty doesn’t make scientists panic. It invigorates them. Instead of worrying about the monsters that might be lurking in corners, they focus on all the amazing things awaiting discovery.

There are some practical steps you can take to get excited about the unknown, instead of letting it inhibit you. Start by asking yourself what the worst possible outcome would be. Next, consider how likely it is for that outcome to occur. Writing down these thoughts puts them in perspective, since tragedy rarely strikes. More often than not, you’ll see that the things you value most will still be intact, even if the worst scenario plays out. Acknowledging this disarms your fears about venturing down a new path. Once you’ve faced your fears, you’ll be free to set off on your journey and see what you can achieve.

The best way to innovate is to stop conforming.

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk had a problem – a $20 million one. He wanted to launch a space company to pursue his dream of settling Mars. But he couldn’t afford a single rocket. The aerospace companies building them all outsourced work to subcontractors, who outsourced work further. All those margins added to an already expensive item, making it unobtainable.

Musk was about to give up when he had a revelation. He asked himself what you needed to go to space. The answer, of course, was a rocket. And what makes a rocket? Raw materials. After some number crunching, Musk found that those materials cost just 2 percent of the average price of a rocket. And if Musk did the bulk of manufacturing in-house, he’d have far greater control over quality and budget. By striking out on his own, Musk could start working towards his dream.

Productivity is the enemy of original thought.

When he was 16, Albert Einstein mused over what would happen if he could observe light by running as fast as it. He knew this was beyond the scope of his body. But imagining this scenario lay the foundations for what became the special theory of relativity, a decade later.

Nikola Tesla also used his imagination as his laboratory. He devoted hours to planning out his inventions mentally, before sketching them. His mind was the first testing ground for his alternating-current system, which we benefit from every day. Neither he nor Einstein would have achieved their incredible breakthroughs if their lives had been cluttered with busyness.

Your mind is the biggest obstacle between you and your goal.

You’re probably familiar with the story of Icarus, who tried to escape imprisonment on Crete by using wings made of wax. Despite his father’s warnings, Icarus flew too high. The sun melted his wings and Icarus plunged to his death.

Through warnings and stories like this, society teaches you to fear taking risks. This keeps you safe when you’re young, but it holds you back as an adult. You tell yourself you don’t have what it takes to go for that promotion, or ask your crush out on a date. But if you change the story you’re telling yourself, you can finally soar.

To get the best solution, you must ask the right question.

In 1999, Ozan Varol received some terrible news from NASA. The three-legged landing system he intended to use to set down a rover on Mars had just failed spectacularly on another mission. Varol immediately snapped into action. The question on his mind was: How do we fix the existing system?

But engineer Mark Adler saw things differently. He asked the question: how do we defy gravity so that the rover reaches Mars safely? To answer this question, Adler abandoned the three-legged system completely. Instead, he designed a system of enormous airbags that would inflate around the rover, letting it bounce a few dozen times before coming to a halt on the Martian surface. Eventually, Adler’s design safely delivered two rovers to Mars.

To arrive at the truth, you must actively overcome your blind spots.

“What aren’t we seeing?” If the navigators of NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter had asked this question in 1999, they may have avoided a $193 million mistake. Two months before the orbiter’s scheduled arrival date, data projected that it would orbit Mars 100 kilometers lower than it should. This meant certain failure. The orbiter would either burn to a crisp or bounce off Mars’s atmosphere and into the depths of space.

But the navigators put the data discrepancy down to an error in the navigation system. They were wrong. On its arrival date, the orbiter passed behind Mars as planned, but was never heard from again. Later, an investigation found the real source of the error: the system had been designed by Lockheed Martin, a company that uses the inch-pound system. The navigators used metric. All of their measurements were off by a factor of four. If they’d questioned the data instead of ignoring it, they may have prevented the costly disaster.

The best way to ensure success is to test rigorously.

Astronauts train for years before they go to space. They spend hours practicing procedures in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab, an enormous pool that houses a submerged replica of the International Space Station. They even experience weightlessness in an airplane dubbed the “vomit comet,” which replicates zero gravity by diving like a rollercoaster.

But the most grueling training exercises are the simulated emergencies that take astronauts to their physical limits. In space, one wrong move could turn a situation like this fatal. So, the training program tries to trick them into making a mistake. That way, the astronaut is better prepared for their mission.

We must carefully study our failures, even in the midst of success.

Failure is inevitable when you’re aiming high. If you’re on the hunt for an original solution, you’ll be generating lots of ideas. Many of those ideas won’t meet the brief. But they play an important role by moving you closer to that breakthrough concept.

James Dyson clocked up 5,126 failed prototypes over 15 years. Only then did he find the right design for his famous bagless vacuum. When we carefully study our failures, as Dyson did, they provide us with powerful insight.

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Think Like a Rocket Scientist (2020) reveals the strategies that rocket scientists use to innovate, problem-solve, and bring the unimaginable into fruition. By learning the techniques that scientists use every day, you’ll gain powerful tools that will help you fulfill both your professional and personal dreams.

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—Ozan Varol

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Über den Autor

Ozan Varol’s diverse career spans rocket science, law, and authoring nonfiction books. A former member of the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers team, Varol penned Think Like a Rocket Scientist to help non-scientists reach their full potential. His award-winning articles are taught in colleges and graduate schools, and his work has featured widely in US and international media.

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