Reading Reflection No.2

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Kind of the Story of My Life
By: Scott Adams

1. The general theme of this book, or what I took away from it was to take care of yourself and manage your energy, so that you can focus on different ventures and juggle business, family and personal time. That is okay to try new things and fail. You gain more experience with each failure and that experience may be great for a different venture. You can take what you learn about one aspect of your failed idea/venture and apply it to another concept and so on until you have so much knowledge that you will eventually get something right.

2. I have to say that his "Passion is Bullshit" chapter didn't really go along with what I feel we talk about in class, but it was a funny chapter. Don't do what you are passionate about because you will grow to hate it. He did reiterate that failure is good, failure is okay. It's a learning tool that can lead to bigger and better ventures in the future.  

3. I have a couple of assignments that I might do: 1. I might would have student think back through out their lives and come up with 3 things that they are really good at and then find opportunities involving those things. Those are the things that you will, most likely, succeed at and 2. I might would have students write down affirmations for this class or any class they were taking, post it somewhere they look every day and then at the end of the semester have them report back to see how they affected them or if they helped in any way. .  

4. The biggest thing, for me, was his idea to take care of yourself in all aspects. When I think of being an entrepreneur, I think of working all the time and possibly working yourself to death. I think that because he had struggled with psychological and physical issues, he wanted to drive home that taking care of yourself can be done along with all the other demands of being an entrepreneur. You have to prioritize, manage your time and energy.