The art of invention with Nathan Myhrvold

Worklife with Adam Grant

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4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Nathan Myhrvold may be the closest thing we have to a modern-day Renaissance man. A cofounder, inventor, chef, photographer, dinosaur hunter, author and former Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft, Nathan infuses creativity and innovation into everything he does. Nathan and Adam dive into the science behind the creative process, discussing what it takes to spark imagination and fight groupthink. Nathan also shares his experience working with Stephen Hawking, and why he believes that an idea is only as good as its execution.

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0:38.0	It's all you need to lead.
0:41.6	I love intellectual arbitrage where you find solutions someone has over here that could
0:48.5	apply to a different area.
0:52.1	Hey, everyone, it's Adam Grant.
1:00.0	Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes Us Tick with the TED Audio Collective. I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking.
1:09.0	My guest today is Nathan Mirvald.
1:12.8	He's something of a modern Renaissance man.
1:15.0	He earned a PhD in Applied Math, did a postdoc with Stephen Hawking, and became Microsoft's
1:19.9	first chief technology officer.
1:21.7	He's the co-founder of intellectual ventures, a company that develops and acquires
1:25.5	patents, and he loves to invent solutions to problems.
1:29.4	When we recruit other scientists, I always like to say, I need to find someone who's
1:33.2	crazy enough to think it's possible, but not so crazy as to think they already did it.
1:38.2	Nathan has also moonlighted as a dinosaur hunter. Yep, his team has discovered a record number
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