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A review by dimayj
Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life by Ozan Varol
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This book offers a set of tools for thinking like a rocket scientist written by an astrophysicist who is also a lawyer and a professor.
The book features 9 strategies for “thinking like rocket scientist" divided into 3 stages; launch, accelerate, and achieve. The nine strategies include dealing with uncertainty, reasoning from first principles, thought experiments, moonshot thinking, asking the right questions, spotting flaws in thinking, testing and experimenting, and finally the role of failure and success.
Although these seem like very informative topics to delve into, the book was a letdown for me. I found it long-winded, disorganised, and heavy on quotes and redundant anecdotes. I agree with one reviewer who described it as an "anecdote salad". For this reason, I have struggled to get through the book and did not really get any useful takeaways that would improve thinking or decision-making. Unfortunately, this is not a read that I would recommend.
The book features 9 strategies for “thinking like rocket scientist" divided into 3 stages; launch, accelerate, and achieve. The nine strategies include dealing with uncertainty, reasoning from first principles, thought experiments, moonshot thinking, asking the right questions, spotting flaws in thinking, testing and experimenting, and finally the role of failure and success.
Although these seem like very informative topics to delve into, the book was a letdown for me. I found it long-winded, disorganised, and heavy on quotes and redundant anecdotes. I agree with one reviewer who described it as an "anecdote salad". For this reason, I have struggled to get through the book and did not really get any useful takeaways that would improve thinking or decision-making. Unfortunately, this is not a read that I would recommend.