Why You Should Never Miss an Opportunity to be Fabulous with Tina Seelig
In this episode of the podcast, author, educator, and executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures program, Tina Seelig talks about why most rules are just recommendations, the power of writing a resume of your...
In this episode of the podcast, author, educator, and executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures program, Tina Seelig talks about why most rules are just recommendations, the power of writing a resume of your failures, reframing problems to give us an expanded set of solutions and much more.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- What happens when we do the right things for the wrong reasons
- Why passion follows engagement and experience
- The problem with being completely rigid about your life and career plans
- Why most rules are just recommendations
- Simple ways to get outside your comfort zone and grow
- Learning to use little experiments as the path to innovation
- The power of writing a resume of your failures
- How to reframe the problems in our life to expand the set of solutions
- Dealing with the personal, professional and academic challenges of our lives
- The importance of knowing your limit when it comes to persistence
- A look beyond the romantic illusions of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship
Tina’s Books
What I wish I Knew When I was 20
Ingenius: A Crash Course on Creativity
Insight Out: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and into the World
Dr. Tina Seelig is Professor of the Practice in the Dept of Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) at Stanford University. She is also the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University’s School of Engineering. She teaches courses on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the dept of MS&E and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford.. You can follow her on twitter @tseelig
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