1) What was the general theme or argument of the book?
The book I read was How
to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, by Scott Adams. The general
theme of the book was learning on how to grow from failure and be able to move
on in life.
2) How did the book, in your opinion, connect with and
enhance what you are learning in ENT 3003?
I feel like the book really connected with what we are
learning in the class because it really hammer homes the idea of persistence and
dedication. As an entrepreneur it is important to know how to earn from failure
and embrace it. Entrepreneurship involves a lot of trial and error with failure,
which is essentially what the whole book talks about. I feel like entrepreneurship
can really be summed up by the book’s title “How to Fail at Almost Everything
and Still Win Big” considering entrepreneurship
is about constant dedication and failing just to hopefully ultimately see that
hard work pay off in the end.
3) If you had to design an exercise for this class, based on
the book you read, what would that exercise involve?
What I would design for the class is to write down
everything in the last 6 months that has made them freak out or consider themselves
a failure. Then have them write down everything they have done in the past 6
months that they have done in terms of self care and self happiness. By doing
this they will see how much balance they have in their life and can focus more
on improving their self happiness rather than stressing about failure that
looking backing on it that ultimately probably doesn’t matter.
4) What was your biggest surprise or 'aha' moment when
reading the book? In other words, what did you learn that differed most from
your expectations?
The big ‘aha’ moment for me was when Adams mentioned that he
really switched to believing in systems rather than goals. This was surprising
to me as usually you hear people talking about sticking to their goals, but
Adams totally discouraged this as they are too specific and too far ahead in
the future.
I too read this book, and your aha moment is pretty relatable. Pretty much all my life I was told to create short term and long term goals to achieve so that I could be motivated to do something. Adams stating that it was too specific and far ahead makes it discouraging is a thought I found to be interesting because I never really thought of it that way.
ReplyDeleteHey Chris, I did not read this book so I was interested in learning what you got from it. You did a great job explaining how the book ties into our class, and I can definitely see the correlation on failure and entrepreneurship. Great job.
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