Life is full of Catch-22 situations. Before you finish college you’re pretty sure you know everything. After you leave college, you’re pretty sure you don’t. Now you’re ready to listen to good advice.
Tina Seelig’s book What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World
Seelig starts the book with a fascinating exercise she gives her students: how much money can you make in five days if you start with five dollars? Successful students didn’t focus on the seed money (or lack of it.) They came up with creative ways to start with nothing - ideas such as booking reservations at fancy restaurants and then selling their spots to people who were waiting in line.
To sum up Seelig’s advice “never miss an opportunity to be fabulous.” And for students preparing for college, that time is now.
(Read Guy Kawasaki’s interview with Tina Seelig here.)
