1. The general theme/argument of the book: Continually failing and how to embrace, thrive, and exploit it. Failure can be a great thing! Also, he mentions additional aspects of life such as being selfish and why it is okay to change your mind.
2. How it enhanced what I am learning in ENT 3003: My app idea may not be 100% perfect the first go around. I am bound to experience failures both in this class and out of the class. The amount of times big time entrepreneurs failed or did not succeed as much as they thought is a common trend. It reassures me that it is okay to fail. Additionally, he provided helpful topics on understanding psychology which can help with understanding the consumers I want to target.
3. Designing an exercise based off of what I read, the exercise would involve: Reflection-Name a time you absolutely failed- describe it in detail. Why do you think you failed? How did it make you feel? Have you had the same, repeated failure? Why have you learned from this failure?
4. Biggest surprise of the book: Fake it until you make it! Society always looks down on people who are "fake". But he mentions to fake it until you become it. This can be applied to status, skills, mannerisms. I think he brings up an interesting point. How I would apply this is by: sometimes I'm not always the most confident, especially in business matters or the professional world. If I seem more confident than I feel internally, over time my confidence will grow because I know I can do whatever I am stressed about (for example public speaking).
Hi Meg,
ReplyDeleteWe read the same book and I wholeheartedly agree with how the book relates to the class. We are all bound to face failures with endeavors that we are learning about in this class. This book is wonderful for learning how to deal with them. I like your exercise, mine was very similar but with extra steps since I would have them create a board game and then reflect on that. The fake it until you make it also surprised me. I feel like you shouldn't fake things but I could be beneficial to fake your confidence.
Hey Meg! Like Kristen, I applaud you for reading this novel. It seems to be very interesting based on what you both have highlighted. I'm glad the book made it very clear that failure needs to be embraced. As students who are entering the workforce soon, it's important that we not let 1, 2, 3 or more failures lead us to giving up. We must strive for the best and take any "loss" as a lesson. I also find it interesting that the author pushed readers to "fake it until you make it." I believe it is imporatnt to be your authentic self at all times.
ReplyDeleteHi Megan,
ReplyDeleteI see that this book can relate perfectly to the class, entrepreneurship is a path of mistake behind mistake until one can make it through. The idea of the book can help readers to catch some strength in what they are doing and use those mistakes as lessons, just like you already analyzed with your app idea. Also a reflection for the activity could help the entrepreneur to find more ways to learn from said mistakes, I think you did a good analysis.