Astro Teller

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540 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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Leap Academy with Ilana Golan · Google X's Astro Teller: Why the Biggest Breakthroughs Start with Failure | EP167 · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

Don't do that.

Work smarter.

Don't work harder.

But.

I've learned a lot because I felt from an early age like I had to go figure out on my own new yardsticks to define my own self-worth, figure out what I was really good at.

And, you know, I think sometimes we just take too much what society says.

Here's what you're good at at face value.

And I got to skip that part of the process.

So I think that really helped me weirdly.

I'm not completely sure, but let me give you another story to see if it helps.

I was in college, and I was still probably at the tail end of my we try harder phase.

And a doctor sat down with me.

I thought I was having an ulcer at the time.

This was back when people thought ulcers were because of stress.

They're not for people who still think that's true.

And the doctor said, in retrospect, this is kind of irresponsible of him.

But he said, you're going to die by the time you're 50 if you go on like this.

Because I was just pushing myself too hard.

And despite the fact that that was an irresponsible thing for him to say, I really hurt him.

And I had a couple weeks where I thought really hard about it.

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