How to earn $ 650 for 2 hours: lessons Stanford teacher

Teacher Tina Seelig (Tina Seelig) splits the students into teams and handing out envelopes with $ 5 on Friday, and on Monday the boys tell how much they were able to earn. The most successful team managed to acquire a capital of US $ 600-650. How? Now you learn.

Riddle on the 650 dollars

So, what do you think, what methods are used by students to usefully spend those 2 hours?

You want to know how you can make $ 650? It's simple. On Monday, each team stands in front of other students at Stanford to three-minute presentation that managed to do 2 hours. So, once the winners have sold these 3 minutes "airtime" company that wanted to hire

students to work. A stroke of genius, is not it? For the opportunity to talk with representatives of potential employees of the company paid $ 650.

Course Million

Tina Seelig course at Stanford is considered one of the most popular, because during it students learn to look at the world and the problem from a different angle. Tina is sure: no matter what the balance in life or business you have, with the right approach to the situation it is possible to squeeze the maximum out of it!

It does not matter how many you have "problems", all of them can be turned into opportunities. Tina proves to invent new ideas - it's easy! Solve problems - it's simple! Starting a business - it's easy! Turn a bad idea into a good - it's easy! Do not need to complicate things. Just a little, change the angle of view.

Tina says that its environment was fixed such a definition of the word "entrepreneur":

Entrepreneur - a person who is engaged in the identification of problems and turning them into outstanding features.

This means that for every problem there are always creative ways to solveEven if you have little resources. This means that very often we drive ourselves into a rigid framework, and we feel that we are in a deadlock. And only need to take a step back and examine the problem.

The idea Do Bands

Here's a little problem. Imagine that you have an ordinary rubber band, which is worn on the arm or wrist strap. Your task - to get the most out of this subject. Consider a couple of minutes before you read further.

Here is another great option of using gum. His students are offered during the second tournament Innovation Tournament. The team performed with the idea Do Bands - wristbands, you need to put on hand and do not shoot as long as you do not perform any promise. For example, you need to finish a big project. You put on this bracelet, and until the project is completed, do not remove it.

Once you successfully deliver what they promise, you remove the accessory and pass it to someone else. That's the way of the simple gum can be a thing that brings benefits.

On that similar ideas

During the lessons, Tina gives a lot of time to become a man even more creative. And further. And a little more. For example, one of the exercises - describe familiar things and ideas through metaphor. Suppose you want to continue this statement:

Ideas remind ______________________________,

because ___________________________________,

and therefore _______________________________.

It may look like this:

Ideas resemble water, because their planet so much, and therefore, we are also in the 80% of the ideas.

Ideas like the sofa, because some of them are forced to sleep too, and therefore, not all sparkling ideas.

Or even this:

Ideas resemble cobwebs, because they are stronger than might appear, and therefore, should not be underestimated.

Think of your options and only then read on.

Take a chance!

Of course, in real life, and can not do business without risks. No one can guarantee that will be a good idea and will help you become famous, earn money or get out of the impasse. But as you know, who does not risk, that... (you know that yourself).

Risk Map - a tool that helps us to understand what you risk failure. There are five types of risk: physical, social, emotional, financial and intellectual. For example, the social risks you did not embarrassed, but physically you just can not stand it. Let's say you are ready to easily change one job to another, but it would never agree to jump with a parachute. Before you make a decision, make a risk map. You will see that not much risk, even in case of failure.

Based on materials books "Why did not you tell me it's 20? Intensive search for himself in this world. "

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