Timothy Chen

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This book really astonishes me.

There are many books about 12 effective ways of managing your career, 10 best practices of planning your work life, blah blah.

But this book from the beginning to the end, keeps showing a really fresh view on what the world is like from a entreprenaur’s view.

Tina Seelig wrote this book intended to tell his 20 years old son what she wish she knew when she was 20, and as 2x years myself, it does strike me.

All the lessons that she learned in the book, it gives me a fresh perspective of how I should view myself at work. For example, one example she gives is how there is always an opportunity and always a problem to solve no matter where you are.

Lots of times I just tell myself there is really nothing new or challenging I can work on in the team I’m in, and the atmosphere smells that way. But in reality, lots of things are there just never been discovered, and haven’t been attempted to find a solution. It’s just there as it always been.

Another cool one is how she emphasizes that usually the worst ideas in brainstorming, are the ones worth exploring. Most of the time we already made a clear cost-effective decision when we think of good ideas, and how they should be implemented and surround the perfect world scenario around it. The stupid or worst ideas just soudns ridiculous. But those are the ones that actually make a difference and brings real fresh perspective. In other words, don’t create a tunnel vision during the process of brainstorming.

There are many more, but I have to say you have to read this book if you’re in to innnovation, entreprenaur, or just a normal working human being.