But by reframing the learning process and focusing on the cool end goal, the fear of failure is often taken off the table, and learning just comes more naturally. Mark Rober Read Quote
By shifting your focus to the princess and treating your life’s challenges like video games, you can trick your brain and actually learn more and see more success. Mark Rober Read Quote
I feel like a lot of the successes in my life have come down to the Super Mario Effect, and while framing challenges like this has worked for me, of course, results may vary. Mark Rober Read Quote
Until maybe my coworker makes a six-and-a-half-foot Nerf gun, I’m the proud holder of a world record. Mark Rober Read Quote
So basically, you know, the first day on the job you get there and you realize everybody has a Nerf gun. They had, you know, the smaller ones that shoot the darts. So part of the rite of passage of coming to the company is you have to get your own. Mark Rober Read Quote
One of the things that always appealed to me about Nasa was we were always doing cool stuff that no-one’s done before. Mark Rober Read Quote
We spent zero dollars on advertising. We just had a YouTube video and that was it. We did a quarter million dollars in revenue, just in three weeks. Mark Rober Read Quote
I have a science YouTube channel where I will sometimes use my engineering skills to build things such as the world’s largest Super Soaker or the Guinness World Record world’s largest Nerf gun. Mark Rober Read Quote
And as – funny enough, it actually became – so I’ve always wanted to be a Guinness world record holder. And believe it or not, before I made this there was not a category for world’s largest Nerf gun, but there is now. Mark Rober Read Quote
