The book I read for this assignment was Scott Adams book, "How To Fail At Almost Everything and Still Win Big." The general theme of the book was is that you need to change your mindset in order to become successful. It teaches you how to learn how to fail, and how to think in order to become successful. The book speaks about life tips and the authors personal experiences in order to teach you how to become successful.
This book connects and enhances what we are learning in this class because it talks about how to be come successful, and how to learn to fail and end up successful. This class is all about teaching us how to become successful. We are learning how to plan the foundation for a business idea. This extensive planning helps set us up for success if we decide to pursue the business idea. By planning out how we are going to start this business, it leaves a lot less room for error.
If I had to design an exercise for this class, based on the book I read, I would create an exercise where someone has to type out a time that they failed, and write about why they think they failed, what they could've done to prevent it, and how they moved past it.
My biggest surprise when reading the book was when the author talked about how feelings and emotions drive decisions not logic and reason. I thought that the best way to go about something is to use logic and reason, but more often than not, feeling and emotion takes over and is the more dominant aspect when making a decision.
This reminds me of a book I heard about, "Failing Forward", which similarly explains the importance of learning from your mistakes. If we do not fail, then we have nothing to improve and work on. It is only from our failures that we learn and become better. The book I read also explains the importance of innovation and to keep trying until things work.
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ReplyDeleteThis book seems really interesting and I kinda wish I read this instead of mine. Anyway, the things he seemed to have talked about sound very beneficial and are definitely good things to learn when becoming an entrepreneur. It seems like the book was very easy connect to and was overall a good read.
David, the book you read sounds very interesting and you did an excellent job of summarizing it. I think the exercise you described is very good and not only could be applied to this class, but could be useful for anyone who is looking to improve the way they tackle important tasks.
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