This should be renamed, "Things I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 to Become an Entrepreneur as Explained by Countless Tales of Other People's Experiences." I guess it's not as catchy though.

I thought the content would be aimed towards overall life lessons, and I suppose a lot of them can be interpreted that way. However, the focus was aimed towards business/entrepreneurial/success lessons. Which is fine! I just wasn't expecting it.

The lessons are definitely valuable and important. Examples are to think outside of the box, don't waste time being competitive, and be the best you and not everyone else's version of you. But all of the lessons could have been condensed into less than 50 pages. There was a lot of repetition, redundancy, and sharing of stories that were too similar to justify sharing them all.

A worthwhile book to skim, not read.

This books takes ideas that you thought you knew and wonderfully converts them into life changing principles that are all based on:
. Giving yourself permission to do things that scare you by taking risks and putting yourself out there.
. Identifying problems that are around you and working tirelessly to find solutions that are creative and those that challenge traditional assumptions.
. Viewing failure as a necessity for success.
. Embracing uncertainty because life is unpredictable.

This books takes ideas that you thought you knew and wonderfully converts them into life changing principles that are all based on:
. Giving yourself permission to do things that scare you by taking risks and putting yourself out there.
. Identifying problems that are around you and working tirelessly to find solutions that are creative and those that challenge traditional assumptions.
. Viewing failure as a necessity for success.
. Embracing uncertainty because life is unpredictable.

I expected this book to be more “list-ey” but fortunately it wasn’t. Instead there’s a bunch of short chapters with specific lessons that encourage entrepreneurship (in the broad sense, not the start your own business sense). Essentially, it all boils down to that point; give yourself permission to be good at whatever it is you’re doing, to do better than you are asked to do, and to help others more than you expect help in return.

Overall, it was good; Tina uses a lot of examples from people she has met and taught. Probably my favorite story is the title story from the chapter "Turn Lemonade into Helicopters". Essentially, she helped a random guy from Chili in the grocery store with how to make frozen lemonade, they became friends, then when she was in Chile years later his family gave her a private helicopter tour around the city. Pretty cool. From now on I help everyone I meet in the grocery store.

Great book, particularly enjoyed chapter 7 to chapter 9. Great insights about the importance of positivity and how a combination of positivity and making the most of opportunities can bring you luck. It also talked about the importance of apologizing for mistakes, the sooner the better and really taking ownership and learning from them. The longer you leave apologizing, the greater someone else will be thinking and brewing over it. It also spoke of thinking of how people view you as a sink of water, one small drop of ink (negative interactions) can taint the whole thing, where as the clear water is something that builds up over time, but its also the most recent interactions people remember best. Hence like a sink, those perceptions and memories are slowly draining. It also discussed about having a "bad CV", a CV that has all of your biggest failures in life and what you have learned from every one of them. It challenges you as a person to consider those mistakes and ensure you are learning and growing from them, instead of stagnating. Lean in to the mistakes you have made, and learn from them to make yourself a better person.
It also talks about if you were looking back on the story and telling it to a friend, how would you want to describe it, this is how you should act. Not necesseraly sticking directly to rules, but acting with empathy and compassion.
A great book, very relatable and full of anecodtal pieces that really resonated. The way they were told in story form, makes the information and learnings more memorable. I love the concept of learning from somebody else's mistakes and learnings.

The most important lesson this book have taught me is we should always be openminded.

If I were in her course and were given the first task of the book —do as much with 5 dollars and 2 hours — I'd run to the computer or administration centre on campus and drop this course as soon as possible. That way I wouldn't lose more than half an hour and get 5 dollars, which is worth more than this book full of poppycock.

If you really want to read this book, I suggest you download it.

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