Ozan Varol is a rocket scientist turned award-winning law professor and bestselling author of Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life. His latest book, Awaken Your Genius: Escape Conformity, Ignite Creativity, and Become Extraordinary, is out now. Subscribe to the podcast: http://jordanharbinger.com/subscribe Full show notes can be found here: https://jordanharbinger.com/825 What We Discuss with Ozan Varol: 0:00 - Failure of the education system and news cycle 6:50 - Independent thinking vs Independent thinkers 13:34 - Valuing yourself based on others' opinions 23:22 - How to win any debate 35:28 - Tribalism in thinking 46:53 - Digital morning routine 1:00:28 - Creating your own doors 1:09:17 - The market tries to make you vanilla, but it hates vanilla When the thought of change is too painful to consider — even change that would benefit us in the long run — perhaps it’s time to examine the shackles that keep us tethered to the status quo. Are we sticking with an unfulfilling job simply because it pays the bills and we don’t want the skills we’ve built along the way to go to “waste?” Are we tied up in non-critical ways of thinking or stuck in roles that no longer define the people we are today? On this episode, we’re rejoined by someone who knows a thing about making painful but necessary life changes — Ozan Varol, a rocket scientist turned tenured law professor turned author of Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life and Awaken Your Genius: Escape Conformity, Ignite Creativity, and Become Extraordinary. Here, we discuss how to repurpose our skills when we make a course correction, what we can do to disengage from thoughts and identities that no longer represent us, how to develop a curiosity over victory mindset in which exploring new perspectives and ways of thinking take priority over always being right, and much more. Listen, learn, and enjoy! Get the BEST highlights from each episode on our clips channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-cxPJ7QxPE8M7EYe5Vv7ag Want to watch more in-depth interviews with some of the world’s most amazing and successful people? Find full episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNbAQB8BYtM&list=PLxuPu-uyanrrBgAl5-76enemxVsxFjnEQ&index=1 Welcome to The Jordan Harbinger Show, a video podcast where each week you get to join a conversation with some of the world’s highest performers and incredible personalities. I’ll ask them the tough questions to tease out their top tips so that you can reach levels of personal growth and mastery that you never imagined possible. Learn more about Jordan: http://jordanharbinger.com/about #podcast #jhs #debate