Reading Reflection No. 2

The book I chose was How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big written by Scott Adams. In my opinion, the main theme was to learn how to accept failure and use it as motivation to continue pushing forward until you reach success. In the book, dams had multiple lessons that he learned while navigating his career. Some of the lessons were to use systems instead of goals and to eat healthier. These lessons he learned taught him how to take care of himself so he could continue having failures and learning from them instead of feeling discouraged by them.

In ENT3003, I am always trying to think of ideas and ways to make my business idea better. I am also interviewing people in search of more ways to make the idea better. Sometimes my ideas do not always work out and that can be discouraging at times. Scott Adams book taught me lessons that would be helpful in navigating these failures and the failures I will face later on in life as well. One of the lessons that stuck with me was to follows systems instead of goals. He says that goals are specific objectives and systems are routines. People feel accomplished when they follow a system, however with a goal, once it is reached people simply look for another one.

One exercise I would design for the class would be to choose a lesson that Adams said he learned. I would then have them apply it to their everyday lives for 2 weeks. At the end of the 2 weeks, I would have them reflect on how their life and outlook has changed.

My biggest surprise was when Adams said that passion does not cause success, but success causes passion. This surprised me because I have always had a hard time finding a passion that I would like to turn into a career. Reading that Adams believes that success creates passion is very reassuring because I now feel I can find passion in whatever career choice I make. If one option is not successful I can move onto a choice that will be and find my passion there.