Best of 2015: Why You Should Never Miss an Opportunity to be Fabulous With Tina Seelig
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2015
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Tina Seelig author, educator, and executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures program, 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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| 0:00.0 | Your experiences lead to your passions, not that your passions lead to your experiences. |
| 0:05.0 | So you can be doing anything in your life, and if you're paying careful attention, |
| 0:10.0 | you start realizing their opportunities for you to make a difference and for you to really have an impact. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Sreeny Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who've started movements, built thriving businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art. |
| 0:34.4 | For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakable Creative.com. This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats so you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
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