27A: Reading Reflection No. 3
The book I chose to read for the third assignment was a part of the second list and it is:
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Scott Adams
1.) The big picture of the book is pretty self-explanatory for the title. Also, it reflects on what we just wrote about in the assignment right before this. I found it neat how I read the book right before doing the assignment on failure. The book illustrated that the more you fail the more you learn and that even the most successful entrepreneurs have surpassed the numerous failures to get to where they are and win big.
2.) After reading the book I was thoroughly able to answer the reflection (part 3) part of assignment 26A. I was able to have a fresh concept of the idea of failure and how some key personal attributes like patience and persistence can mitigate the ideal of failure.
3.) The assignment I would create would to be to think about one of their weaknesses. To write an assignment on why it is their weakness and how it has become their weakness. Then for the remaining of the semester, work every week to fail at your weakness and reflect on their failure. At the end of the semester their failures might have created a strength.
4.) I always had a good idea about failure and one of my biggest encouragements was for passion. Adams wrote about how passion didn't relate to success which is what i found the most aha, or weird point in the book.
Hello Thomas as we wind down these last couple of assignments I am so glad you continue to try your hardest! Your blog looks sharp and clean as ever which is why I always come back to read it. I am also glad you decided to read this book because it was unfortunately one of the ones I had to skip over in order to pick mine. However, I am glad you were so precise in your description of the book. I have always been afraid of failure so I think reading this book would help me push past that fear.
ReplyDeleteThomas, your blog is really good because you communicate your ideas in ways that is easy to understand. Your summaries provide just enough perspective about the topic under discussion. I like the book by Scott Adams too, through his book he changed the perspective of failure discourse. In many ways we give up easily each time we hit a way in the pursuit to our dreams because we are so focused on the factors that require us to succeed. If we can just reset how we look at failure as simply a learning point within the development process I am sure it would be easy to be patient and persist in anything we want to achieve. One thing I liked about his view of the way we set goals is that focusing on systems would help fix issues we are dealing with now unlike goals that require investment of resources only to discover that they were invested wrongly. Identifying ones weakness is easy but to accept and change the weaknesses is far from simply knowing that there is a problem. I think the assignment you suggested can help many learn how to deal with their weaknesses. Keep up the good work!!
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