Name: 我希望我20歲時就知道的成功祕訣[第1/2部分]。 (What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 | Secrets to Success [Part 1/2])
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What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20, written by Tina Seelig, is an excellent book that I read earlier this year.

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Funny enough, I'm more than a few years past 20,

but I found great value in reading it and I am going to share the key points with you all.

I'm confident you will find some valuable nuggets of information from this book summary.

Like my other book review on the Subtle Art,

I will be summarizing the author's points but also inserting my own commentary on things I agree

or disagree with, along with relevant examples from my personal life.

This is a longer video, but there is a lot of information jam-packed here.

I hope you enjoy watching this video as much as I did making it.

The premise of this book as is as follows:

major life transitions, such as starting college, or graduating college and starting a career,

There are an infinite number of possible paths to take,

and no one is able to tell us whether we are making the right choice.

Success, no matter how you define it, is not part of a simple equation.

While there are common traits among those we deem successful,

there is no clear delineated path or recipe for success.

Tina Seelig is a faculty director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program,

and received her PhD in Neuroscience from Stanford School of Medicine.

She is an excellent teacher and has won several accolades in recognition of her education work.

This book summarizes her model for reaching our highest potential and her life philosophy.

That being said, this information is relevant regardless of age.

Tina sets the tone early on by jumping straight into what makes an entrepreneur.

I love her definition, which is as follows

“an entrepreneur is someone who is always on the lookout for problems that can be turned into

opportunities and finds creative ways to leverage limited resources to reach their goals.”

Note that her definition does not mention anything about businesses, finances, or money.

Being an entrepreneur means seeing the world as opportunity-rich.

Tina argues that entrepreneurship is important for just about everyone to develop.

After all, it “cultivates a range of important life skills, from leadership and team building

to negotiation, innovation, and decision making.”

A common mindset that most of us fall into is to frame a problem or situation too tightly.

In one of her lessons, Tina challenges the students with the following:

earn as much money as possible in two hours starting with just five dollars.

They had time to plan their approach, but once the envelope was cracked open,

they only had two hours to generate as much money as possible.

Standard responses would be to start a car wash or lemonade stand,

using the $5 to purchase the starting materials.

However, teams that made the most money didn't use the five dollars at all.

They realized that focusing on the money framed the problem too tightly,

so they reframed the problem as “what can we do to make money if we start with absolutely nothing?”

The teams found incredibly innovative solutions, some bringing in upwards of $600.

Some of my favorites included offering a service to sell reservations to restaurants,

so customers did not have to wait around in line on busy nights.

As a cycling enthusiast, I also enjoyed hearing of the story

where a team set up a stand to measure bike tire pressures for free.

If the tires needed air, they would inflate the tires for one dollar.

When then they switched from charging a fee of one dollar to becoming donation-based,

Next, school is not an accurate representation of the real world.

I am in no way saying that competition is a bad thing.

However, the current educational system often hinders collaborative team efforts.

In school, students are evaluated as individuals and graded on a curve.

This means when one student wins, someone else loses.

This adds unnecessary stress and is not an accurate representation of how the real world works.

Outside of school, people work on teams with a shared goal, and when they win so does everyone else.

Another great point she makes is how students learn.

I'm sure all of you can relate to being assigned a textbook chapter,

carefully reading and taking notes, and being tested on the material later.

After college, however, you become your own teacher and must figure out what you need to know,

where to find the information, and how to absorb it best.

Tina calls life the “ultimate open book exam.”

“The doors are thrown wide open, allowing you to draw on endless resources around you

as you tackle open-ended problems related to work, family, friends, and the world at large.”

We have been taught all our lives that problems are to be avoided and are something to be complained about.

By removing ourselves from these situations, we will view problems as opportunities in our everyday lives.

In contrast to school, most situations outside of school have a multitude of answers to every question,

More importantly, it is acceptable to fail.

Tina actually encourages more failing, as failure is an important part of life's learning process.

“Just as evolution is a series of trial-and-error experiments,

life is full of false starts and inevitable stumbling.

The key to success is the ability to extract the lessons out of each of these experiences,

and to move on with that new knowledge.”

I have been in this situation, and I am sure many of you can relate.

There are times where I have felt like I need to pick the one right answer

when there is a wall of choices in front of me. It can be overwhelming.

And although family and friends will be happy to give advice,

it's ultimately up to us to choose our own direction.

But the important part to remember is that we don't have to be right the first time.

Life presents us with many opportunities to experiment with

and recombine our skills and passions in new and surprising ways.

For example, I would have never guessed that I would combine my passions for medicine,

education, and technology into this Youtube Channel.

Tina requires her students to write a failure resume.

That means they craft a resume of their biggest screw-ups -

For each failure, the student describes what he or she learned from that experience.

This forces students to come to terms with the mistakes they have made along the way,

and reminds them that these are opportunities for growth above all else.

Many successful people believe that if you aren't failing sometimes then you aren't taking enough risks.

In some cultures, the downside for failure is so high that individuals are allergic to taking any risk at all.

This is in sharp contrast to the Silicon Valley,

where failure is acknowledged as a natural part of the process of innovation.

On the most basic level, all learning comes from failure.

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