- This book reflects on the journey of author Scott Adams as he moves through life experiencing failure after failure but ultimately ends up successful. This book basically explains the ways in which Adams looked after himself in order to stay driven and healthy while he experienced his countless setbacks; it addresses concepts and tips for taking on a mindset fit for perseverance.
- This book connected with what I've learned in ENT because it addresses failure and hones in on systems you can use to make sure you persist through the challenges so that you can reach success in the long run. Persistence is a big theme when it comes to entrepreneurship because it is much more common to fail numerous times before succeeding than to succeed the first time around.
- Based off this book, if I had to plan an exercise for this class it would probably end up being very similar to assignment 26A: celebrating failure. This is a great assignment because it actively changes your mindset as you reflect on how failure has helped you grow. Another idea could work off of the topic in the book about creating systems to follow rather than simply setting goals. An activity could ask students to write down goals, and then write an actual plan/system to follow in order to accomplish them.
- The biggest surprise that this book brought me was when Adams addressed the topic of quitting and that's because this book is mainly about being able to persist. However, Adams discussed the importance of knowing when to jump ship. Although entrepreneurship is about taking risks, it is important to be able to realize when your risks will only lead you to a dead end, cutting your losses is oftentimes necessary.
Friday, July 27, 2018
Reading Reflection No.3
For this reading reflection, I decided to read How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams.
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I also read this book for one of my assignments. I enjoyed reading it, but the biggest take away for me was that in order for you to truly success you have to be selfish. Not in the sense that it should be your nature towards everything, but at certain points you should place yourself before others, because success is hard to find.
ReplyDeleteI looked at this book as well thought out the different reading reflections that we had to do and found it very interesting. I came to much of the same conclusions that you came to and certainly started to think about failures in a different light. This book also directly ties into this class with the assignment we had to do this week which talked about analyzing different types of failures and how they assist us. I think that this book does a good job in emphasizing those positive things that do come out of failure.
ReplyDeleteI read this book as well for my last reading reflection and truly enjoyed it. One of the most valuable things I read was to use a system instead of setting one goal, which is something i hope to apply in my life from now on. I also admired his emphasis on remaining persistent and his ability to know when it is time to move when it is necessary.
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