Assignment 27A- Reading Reflection No.3

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Scott Adams

What was the general theme of argument of the Book?

·      Scott Adams discussed many important life lessons but the main takeaway is that you may feel that other people similar to you are succeeding and you are not, but that doesn’t mean you should give up it takes time and patience. You will learn from each failure and eventually reach success.

How did this book, in your opinion, connect with and enhance what you are learning in ENT3003?

·      This connected and enhanced what we are learning in ENT3003 because throughout this course we were building a business. Each assignment required putting in work and really thinking about the layout and all aspects of this business. And what Scott Adams talked about related to this. He explained that you must put work in now to see something in the future. He said you must use a system in order to reach your desired outcome, which is what we were doing with each assignment as we broke down our business plan into specifics.

If you had to design an exercise for this class based on the book, what would that exercise involve?

·      This exercise would involve thinking about possible failures that may occur in their own business idea. And then they would have to decide how they would overcome those failures and actually learn from them. Through this they can reflect and hopefully see that perhaps without those failures they may have not known certain things that they do now or came up with a new idea that they wouldn’t have before, which can make failure seem not as negative as it is sought out to be.

What was your biggest surprise or 'aha' moment when reading the book? In other words, what did you learn that differed most from your expectations?

·      I think the thing that surprised me the most was that I wouldn’t expect a man who created Dilbert (comic strip) would have such a large influence of how I think about pursuing certain things now. I expected a few life lessons here and there but Scott Adams has really experienced so much and because of those experiences he is able to communicate huge contributing factors of what makes someone successful in the business world.