书名：What I wish I Knew When I was 20 真希望我二十几岁就明白的事
作者：Tina Seelig
出版社名称：Harper One
出版时间：2009
语种：英文
ISBN：9780062047410
商品尺寸：13.8 x 1.4 x 20.9 cm
包装：平装
页数：196（以实物为准）

What I wish I Knew When I was 20《真希望我20几岁就明白的事》这一书中，蒂娜•齐莉格写出了自己半生的职业实践和开战励志课程积累的经验，列出清单，举出大量的创造性思维的实例以帮助职场新人更顺利地开展职场之路，掘得人生一桶金。本书适合大学生、职场新人以及对创新创业理念感兴趣的书迷朋友们。
推荐理由：
1.本书由斯坦福大学颇具魅力和创新力的创业导师、教授蒂娜•齐莉格编写；
2.详细的斯坦福培训案例，有效生动的成功创意妙招，丰富的人生和职场经验总结，可谓兼具实用性及创造性的人生创意书；
3.英文原版，语言难度不大，例子丰富，中学程度即可看懂，对提升英语和自我提升都有帮助。

International bestselling author Tina Seelig shares with us what she offers her students—provocative stories, inspiring advice, and a big dose of humility and humor. These pages are filled with fascinating examples, from the classroom to the boardroom, of individuals defying expectations, challenging assumptions, and achieving amazing success. Seelig throws out the old rules and provides a new model for reaching our highest potential. We discover how to have a healthy disregard for the impossible, how to recover from failure, and how most problems are remarkable opportunities in disguise.What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 is a much-needed book for everyone looking to make their mark on the world.
Review

“Tina Seelig is one of the most creative and inspiring teachers at Stanford. Her book ought to be required reading. I wish I had read it when I was 20... and again at 50.”  —Robert Sutton, Stanford University Professor and author The No-Asshole Rule
“True, it’s written by a woman (a Stanford University professor, no less), but this ‘crash course in making your way in the world’ is full of realistic tips that help put things into perspective.”—Sacramento Bee
“It’s almost impossible to read the first line of Tina Seelig’s book and not grab pen and paper to jot down a river of pent-up ideas and possibilities… A galvanizing document, [it] gives us— more than anything else— permission to develop our dreams.” —Santa Cruz Sentinel
“Wise, witty and packed with stories of those who are making a difference and some who are making a fortune...The only trouble is that you will need two dozen copies to give to everyone.”—Patricia Ryan Madson, author ofImprov Wisdom: Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up
“Anybody who wants to live an entrepreneurial life filled with purpose and passion needs to read this book. It’s chockfull of practical tools and tips to bring out the best in each of us.” —Steve Case,Chairman of RevolutionandThe Case Foundation, and co-founder of AOL
“This is a great guide to moving in more exciting, creative, and fulfilling directions, written by a person who is an expert at doing so. But if Tina Seelig had known any more when she was 20, the world probably could not now contain her.”   —Jim Adams, Author,Conceptual Blockbusting

《真希望我20几岁就明白的事》讲述蒂娜教授17岁的儿子即将进入大学，她意识到自己没能教给儿子足够的知识和技巧融入这个社会，取得成功，所以她回忆了自己20岁时想了解的事情，那些可以避免弯路和失败的宝贵经验。她从念神经科学的学生，到管理咨询行业的先锋，到斯坦福管理风险投资和创业项目的主管，职业经历丰富，有非常多可以分享和教授的精彩内容。打造了一堂含金量颇高的课：创意决定人生，突破规则，才能在千万人中脱颖而出！
Major life transitions such as leaving the protected environment of school or starting a new career can be daunting. It is scary to face a wall of choices, knowing that no one is going to tell us whether or not we are making the right decision. There is no clearly delineated path or recipe for success. Even figuring out how and where to start can be a challenge. That is, until now. As executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Tina Seelig guides her students as they make the difficult transition from the academic environment to the professional world, providing tangible skills and insights that will last a lifetime. 

蒂娜·齐莉格（Tina Seelig），斯坦福大学教授，于1985年获斯坦福大学的神经科学博士学位，曾任职于知名的步兹、艾伦与汉弥顿管理咨询公司（Booz, Allen & Hamilton），康柏电脑公司（Compaq），也创办过一家叫做”图书浏览器”的多媒体公司。
现任斯坦福科技创业计划（STVP）执行长，STVP致力于高科技创业教育，为不同领域的学生提供创业技巧，鼓励他们以创新方式解决世界的问题。齐莉格教授也在斯坦福设计学院教授创造力、创新和创业精神的课程；也经常为各年龄层的人士提供拓宽思路，帮助职场成功的励志课程，在这个领域具有相当丰富的专业素养。主要著作有What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20《真希望我20几岁就明白的事》等。
Tina Seelig has a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the Stanford School of Medicine and is the executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, which is the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University’s School of Engineering. In addition, Seelig teaches courses on entrepreneurship and innovation in the Department of Management Science and Engineering and in the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University. She frequently speaks and runsworkshops for executives in a wide range of disciplines and has written several popular science books for adults and children.

1.Buy One, Get Two Free
2. The Upside-Down Circus
3. Bikini or Die
4. Please Take Out Your Wallets
5. The Secret Sauce of Silicon Valley
6. No Way… Engineering Is for Girls
7. Turn Lemonade into Helicopters
8.Paint the Target around the Arrow
9. Will This Be on theExam?
10. Experimental Artifacts
Acknowledgments
Notes
第一章假设是可以推翻的——拍卖斯坦福学生，买一送二
第二章问题中都隐藏机遇——没有动物和小丑的马戏团
第三章规则是可以被打破的——无法想象的”恶劣”推荐信
第四章别等待什么救世主——eBay原来不能添加图片？
第五章屡败……屡战——写下你的失败简历
第六章别太重视”职业建议”——为什么女孩才学工程学？
第七章怎么让自己变得”幸运”——用一杯柠檬水换一架直升机
第八章改变人生的简单小事——非常有价值的生日礼物
第九章不错过任何机会，就是胜利——把蓝色和白色衬衣变成蓝白衬衣
第十章笑望不确定的未来——创意写作，创意人生
致谢
注释

What would you do to earn money if all you had was five dollars and two hours? This is the assignment I gave students in one of my classes at Stanford University. Each of fourteen teams received an envelope with five dollars of “seed funding” andwas told they could spend as much time as they wanted planning. However, once they cracked open the envelope, they had two hours to generate as much money as possible. I gave them from Wednesday afternoon until Sunday evening to complete the assignment. Then, on Sunday evening, each team had to send me one slide describing what they had done, and on Monday afternoon each team had three minutes to present their project to the class. They were encouraged to be entrepreneurial; identifying opportunities, challenging the limited resources they had, and by being creative. 
What would you do if you were given this challenge? When I ask this question to most groups, someone usually shouts out,“Go to Las Vegas,” or “Buya lottery ticket.” This gets a big laugh. These folks would take a significant risk in return forasmall chance at earning a big reward. The next most common suggestion is to set up a car wash or lemonade stand, using thefive dollars to purchase the starting materials. This is a fineoption for those interested in earning a few extra dollars of spending money in two hours. But most of my students eventually found a way to move far beyond the standard responses. They took seriously the challenge to question traditional assumptions —exposing a wealth of possibilities —in order to create as much value as possible.
How did they do this? Here’s a clue: the teams that made the most money didn’t use the five dollars at all. They realized that focusing on the money actually framed the problem way too tightly. They understood that five dollars is essentially nothing and decided to reinterpret the problem more broadly.