What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20

Reading notes for book What-I-Wish-I-Knew-When-I-Was-20

• Problem solving ability is important
• People becomes too used to something to find the best solution
• Get out of comfort zone
• Identify problems in your midst and then relentlessly working to solve them by challenging traditional assumptions
• Turn problems into opportunities

  “All cool things happen when you do things that are not the automatic next step”

• Figure out how your skills can be translated to a different setting
• Learn from failure
• Learn when to call it quits - sunk costs
• If you aren’t failing sometimes, then you probably aren’t taking enough risks