Tina Seelig: The little risks you can take to increase your luck
تينا سيلج: المجازفات الصغيرة التي تزيد من حظك
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luckier than others
increase their luck.
تبوء بالفشل،
that most new ventures fail,
يحاولون الوصول لأكبر قدر من الحظ.
need all the luck they can get.
apparently caused by chance.
سببه الصدفة على ما يبدو.
that come into play to make people lucky.
التي تتدخل لجعل الناس محظوظين.
لم تكن لتتخيلها.
that you didn't even imagine.
three things with you
to capture the winds of luck.
بإمكانه اصطياد رياح الحظ.
with yourself.
that get you out of your comfort zone.
التي ستخرجكم من منطقة راحتكم.
we do this all the time.
طوال الوقت.
to learn how to walk or talk
كيفية المشي أو الكلام
كيف يركب دراجة فى أسبوعه الأول
who doesn't ride a bike
out of our comfort zone
the sense of who we are
giving them encouragement
and take some risks.
fill out a risk-o-meter.
لقياس مدى استعدادهم للمخاطرة.
we developed in our class
they're willing to take.
المستعدين للقيام بها.
and physical risks and financial risks
ومخاطر مادية، ومخاطر مالية
ومخاطر أخلاقية، ومخاطر سياسية.
and ethical risks and political risks.
their risk profiles with others,
المخاطرة الخاصة بهم مع الآخرين.
that they're all really different.
مختلفون تمامًا.
out of their comfort zone.
من منطقة راحتهم.
to do an intellectual risk
القيام بمخاطرة فكرية
حلها من قبل
they haven't tried before;
بجوارهم في القطار،
sitting next to them on the train;
they really care about how they feel.
I was on an airplane,
on my way to Ecuador.
متجهة إلى الإكوادور.
put on my headphones
with the man sitting next to me.
and I learned that he was a publisher.
a fascinating conversation.
of the publishing industry.
of the way through the flight,
and I shared with him a book proposal
I was doing in my class.
this isn't right for us,
هذا لن يجدي نفعًا لنا،
we exchanged contact information.
معلومات الاتصال الخاصة بنا.
I reached out to him,
like to come to my class?
on reinventing the book,
We had a great experience.
a bunch of video clips
من مقاطع الفيديو
the students had done,
I was a little bit hurt.
with my students and not with me,
مع طلابي وليس معي.
and he and his colleagues came to Stanford
فجاء هو وزملاؤه إلى ستانفورد
and afterwards, we had lunch together.
considered writing a book?"
over a million copies around the world.
من الكتاب حول العالم.
from a series of small risks I took,
من مجازفاتٍ صغيرةٍ قمت بها،
you're the most unlucky person,
that get you out of your comfort zone.
لتخرجوا من منطقة راحتكم.
with other people.
who helps you on your journey
in getting you to your goals.
on themselves or someone else,
أو لأحدٍ آخر،
what they're doing.
programs at Stanford,
في ستانفورد،
to those students who don't get in,
من الطلاب،
people who are disappointed.
يرسلون لي الملاحظات والشكاوى.
send me notes, complaining.
more successful next time around?
نجاحًا في المرة القادمة.
thanking me for the opportunity.
على الفرصة.
sent me a beautiful note saying,
ملاحظة جميلة قائلًا:
from this program twice,
for the opportunity.
through the process of applying."
the graciousness of his message
and cooked up an idea
وجهزنا فكرة سويًا
on looking at leadership in that context.
في هذا السياق.
خلال هذا العمل،
incredibly well through that quarter,
that he started working on
into a company called Play for Tomorrow,
"العب للغد"،
from disadvantaged backgrounds
craft the lives they dream to live.
the winds of luck
اصطياد رياح الحظ
that we didn't expect in the first place.
من الأساس.
of the last couple of years,
some tactics for my own life
of every single day,
في نهاية كل يوم،
and I review all the people I met with,
to every single person.
and appreciative,
it has increased my luck.
and get out of your comfort zone.
والخروج من منطقة راحتكم.
your relationship with ideas.
مع الأفكار.
that come there way and they judge them.
التي تعترض طريقه ويحكم عليها.
or "That's a terrible idea."
أو "هذه فكرة شنيعة."
عادة ما تكون بذورها أشياء رائعة بحق.
are often something truly remarkable.
in my classes on creativity
في فصولي
of looking at terrible ideas
for a brand new restaurant.
with the best ideas for a new restaurant
a restaurant on a mountaintop
على قمة جبل
with a gorgeous view.
a restaurant in a garbage dump,
بناء مطعم في مكب للقمامة،
that's really dirty,
cockroach sushi.
and throw them away.
and redistribute them.
وقمت بإعادة توزيعها.
that another team thought was horrible,
أنها مريعة،
into something brilliant.
"This is a fabulous idea."
"هذه فكرة رائعة!"
before they pitch the idea to the class.
حتى ينقلوا الفكرة إلى باقي الفصل.
What does that turn into?
فإلى ماذا قد تحول؟
from Michelin star restaurants
"نجمة ميشلان"
at a much lower price,
with terrible service?
that's a training ground
بمثابة ساحة تدريب
how to avoid all the pitfalls.
يمكن بها تجنب كل العقبات.
and exotic ingredients.
والغريبة حقًا.
really innovative around you,
that have changed our life,
that when they pitched to other people,
it will never work."
لن تنجح أبداً "
were born into terrible circumstances,
سيئة للغاية،
or something terrible.
and show appreciation
والتعبير عن التقدير،
even if they're crazy,
حتى وإن كانت مجنونة،
to catch the winds of luck.
لاصطياد رياح الحظ.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Tina Seelig - EducatorTina Seelig teaches innovation and entrepreneurship and is passionate about creative problem-solving.
Why you should listen
Tina Seelig is Professor of the Practice in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. She is also a faculty director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, the entrepreneurship center at Stanford School of Engineering. Trained as a neuroscientist, with a PhD from Stanford School of Medicine, Seelig has always been interested in how we think, especially how we come up with bold new ideas.
Seelig runs several fellowship programs that focus on entrepreneurial leadership and teaches classes in the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, also know as the d.school. Her highly-experiential classes are crafted to explore factors that contribute to creativity and innovation in individuals and groups within organizations, with an emphasis on how to frame and reframe problems, challenge assumptions, and generate innovative ideas.
After earning her PhD, Seelig was a management consultant and entrepreneur. She is the author of 17 books, including What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20, inGenius and Creativity Rules. She is the recipient of the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, recognizing her as a national leader in engineering education, as well as the Olympus Innovation Award and the Silicon Valley Visionary Award.
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