21A- Reading Reflection No. 2

21A- Reading Reflection No. 2 

For Reading Reflection Number 2, I chose to read, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, by Scott Adams. The general theme of the book was motivation and encouragement. Adams inspires you to learn from your mistakes and too view failures as a device and a tool. He stresses that if success was easy everybody would be successful. You have to fail in order to succeed because failure makes you stronger, smarter, more talented, more experienced, and most importantly gives you the inspiration to try again. 

I think, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, links with what we are learning in ENT3003 by delivering us an authentic idea of what to expect when trying to make our ideas and products into real, profitable businesses. Adams informs us that even if we have this billion-dollar idea, it is still going to take time and failure to succeed. He prepares us for a future filled with disappointment, discouragement and difficulty. 

If I had to design an exercise for this class, based on this book, I would have the class write down a list of times they failed and describe how they felt at the time of the failure and how they feel now, was there something they could have done differently, and what they learned from the failure. 

My biggest surprise when reading, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, was Adams advice to be selfish. The actual act of being selfish when it comes to work, and play wasn’t what surprised me. The advice to be selfish towards yourself from work and play and get good sleep, eat well, and not participate in stressful things is what flabbergasted me. I would have anticipated to be told to work tougher and pull all-nighters to get things completed but Adams advises that you can’t be successful if you aren’t feeling successful mentally and physically.