Reading Reflection No. 2

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

What was the general theme or argument of the book?

The book emphasized on how even failures play a crucial role in the journey to success. The book teaches to accept failures similar to success and try and come out of failures a s a better version of ourselves each time.

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

One of the ideas in the book that I think is similar to the learnings from the class is that success is a cumulative outcome of numerous small efforts, which include all the ups and down, combined together rather than just planning a business idea and then becoming successful the very next day.

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

If I had to design an exercise for the class, I would like to assign a task that would be close to almost impossible to complete. This is because the actual exercise would begin after the task where students would be asked to reflect back on their experience when they were working on the task and they would have to discuss about what they discovered about themselves while doing that task and how they can improve themselves to be a better version of themselves.

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 biggest surprise for me was the book’s take on being selfish. It talks about how being selfish in aright manner can actually help one achieve wonders.