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Mark Rober

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1117 total appearances

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Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And I think that's how you launch a business.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

That's how you make a microphone like this.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

This is how you build a garden in your backyard, right?

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

It all, it starts with that.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

It's that same process and it, it helps make things feel not daunting, right?

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Because at the end of the day, if you're going to climb Mount Everest, it's just literally one step at a time and people get overwhelmed.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

They're just like, how do I get up there?

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

That's so far.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And so the engineering design process allows you to break it down into those bite-sized pieces.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And then as failure comes, quote-unquote failure, you know that's part of the process.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And it's almost exciting.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

It's more flavorful, right?

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

human psychology in here.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

No, for sure.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

I mean, that's what makes our species different than every species on the planet is our ability to collaborate at large scales and have shared goals.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And that happens through stories that usually are fictional, but that's part of, you know, you share a vision.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And if you can, and that is, you know, at Apple, I did find people were not only smart, maybe not quite as smart as at NASA, but they were better communicators across the board.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

and that is almost that's equally important because if you actually want to accomplish something meaningful it it can't be just by yourself like you need a team if everyone's pushing in the same direction incredible things happen how do you get everyone to push in the same direction they have to believe in a shared vision and that ability to convince someone

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

of something to understand your vision is a superpower.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And you want to know how you do that?