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Think Outside the Odds: An Underdog’s Toolkit for Achieving the Impossible by [Vedika Dayal]

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What’s the secret to achieving the impossible? This thought-provoking book will take you through the lives of underdog innovators and help you discover the answers along the way.

We are often told to "think outside the box" when solving problems. But in the real world, constraints around our innovation are more real than cardboard. From inaccessible resources to low self-esteem, they stack the odds against us. We are told that success lies in overcoming these disadvantages. But what if the key to innovation is harnessing them instead?

Vedika Dayal set out to find answers. She sought a diverse group of underdog founders and discovered that obstacles can be your biggest asset for innovation—if you’re intentional about it. In Think Outside the Odds, Dayal weaves together psychological insights, entrepreneurship case studies, and thirteen captivating stories of innovators to show how you can harness the same power of intentionality.

How do you start a million-dollar movement making bracelets out of shoelaces? How do you go from housing insecurity to pioneering 3D-printed homes for families in need? By delving into the outer edges of entrepreneurship, you will find unorthodox ideas on how to optimize your environment, conversations, and movement through life's opportunities. In the process, you will unearth a world brimming with possibility—to seize it, all you have to do is dare to Think Outside the Odds.

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"Engaging, inspiring, and actionable. Think Outside the Odds shows us the power of embracing our obstacles through the stories of innovators who tread rocky paths. This book will help you unlock your entrepreneurial potential." —Nir Eyal, best-selling author of Indistractable and Hooked

"As someone who has spent my whole life looking for stories of the underdog that feel relatable, I can't recommend Think Outside the Odds enough. It isn't always easy to push back against the pressure to conform, but Vedika Dayal put together a captivating set of stories that make you realize you really can achieve your goals, however impossible they may seem." —Asha Dahya, author of Today's Wonder Women & founder of GirlTalkHQ

"In a world of endless clichés and media coverage of the same small set of startups, Vedika Dayal's thoughtful approach to telling the previously unknown stories of underdog founders is both relatable and fascinating. Her crisp writing and compelling stories are a unique contribution to the literature of entrepreneurship that will serve to inspire an entirely new generation of founders." —Mike Grandinetti, entrepreneurship & innovation faculty at Harvard, Brown, and Rutgers University

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09DLYNSR1
Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Degree Press (August 24, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 24, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2945 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 204 pages

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Vedika Dayal is a writer, speaker, and avid latte enthusiast. She has spoken about entrepreneurship and innovation at UC Berkeley and Harvard University, among other academic institutions. The focus of her work is to empower those who feel like their dreams are out of reach and equip them with the tools to live a more intentional, innovative life.

Vedika is an explorer at heart and is always seeking out new cafés suitable for writing. She also likes to make duct tape wallets and be the best plant mom to a healthy echeveria.

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DRAO

What a wonderful book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 30, 2021

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I read this book twice through and found it really was able to influence my thinking. The examples of how odds were overcome by ordinary folks is what is compelling. I think in today's information overload generation this book is important to point out that one need not feel the odds are stacked so i cam going to either give up or scale down my dreams. Great book - and coming from a young author even more impressive. Recommend a read.

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There is nothing like impossibilities until you try the possibility’s

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 17, 2021

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Profound thought, set to simple understandable language, gracefully yet poignantly authored with eloquent conversations & precise quotes. An absolute pleasure to read this book

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great book really spoke to me would recommend

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Syna Sharma

Enlightening and Inspiring

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 19, 2021

I really loved the balance between anecdotes and facts in this book. The ideas and lessons are so easy to carry out in my daily life. Reading this has inspired me to be more proactive and intentional about my life, including what I read and see on a day-to-day basis and whom I communicate with. I wish I had read this book earlier!

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Anusha S

Outside the odds, a great book indeed!

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on September 19, 2021

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Things that this book teaches you and emphasises on:
To think out of the box, and not be constrained by the thinking in the presence of the box.
The flow this book follows is to take us through the intentional environment, intentional conversation and intentional movement.
I would say it is very thoughtfully curated, and refined to narrate the process that every entrepreneur in a way goes through.
Like the book calls it out — it offers you with a toolkit to think outside the odds, embrace the opportunities that come your way.

Carol Shetler

Three Ways To Create Odds in Your Favor - Think Outside the Odds

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 30, 2021

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Vedika Dayal would be considered by most as a true underdog. Still in college, her keen observations of her environment, how she makes contacts and how she creates a path to her goals and moves along it led her to write Think Outside The Odds.
Just reading the Table of Contents will spark your curiosity, with its three main section heads: Intentional Environment, Intentional Conversation and Intentional Movement. Within these you will find such chapters as Pry Open the Oyster - how to carefully direct your energy to find new opportunities, and Be Your Own Air Purifier - identifying aspects of your environment that are holding you back, that can be "sanitized", or if your environment is toxic to your ideas and projects, how to decide when to "filter" it, and get out.
Intentional Conversations highlights how to build bridges to people that can help you refine your ideas and produce results, in such chapters as "Throw The Dinner Party" and "Tug on The String".
The final section, Intentional Movement focuses on identifying the concrete, realistic steps to take to get from your idea to its results. Its chapter heads start off with "Knock on the Door," the classic advice that says you need to ask for something before you can get it.
Ms Dayal drew on the experiences of thirteen imaginative entrepreneurs to create this book but also drops in anecdotes about innovators from the Beatles to Elon Musk, demonstrating how most people start off as the underdog, but can become a "top dog" by thinking "outside the odds."

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