How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Scott Adams
- The general argument of the book is that failure is not a scary thing, and that it is necessary in order to learn from your mistakes and achieve success. The book is more of a general mindset book, and not on that specifically tells you how to run your own business.
- The book connected what I have learned from ENT 3003 that all these exercises we have been doing are for a reason, we are supposed to see that out target market was wrong, or our assumptions about consumer behavior were wrong. Scott Adams wants us to know that failure is okay, and it is in fact essential.
- If I had to design an exercise for this class centered around the book it would be to go out and try new things to see how well you can do them. But go out the next day and try them again, and you will begin to learn that the more you practice something, the more you fail, the better you will get.
- My biggest 'aha' moment throughout the book was when he was explaining how his own failures lead to his success as a comic artist and who it was essential. This made me realize that I need to go out of my comfort zone more in order to see more success in all aspects of my life.
Hello Ethan, good summary of the book's theme and central topic. I agree with Scott Adams view of how failure is a normal thing and how we must learn from failure as that will make us better individuals. I like the idea of the exercise that you want to propose to the class. I believe that what you stated is true, the more we do something the better we get at it.
ReplyDeleteHey Ethan, I really liked this summary and partly due to the fact that I wrote my report on the same book! I really found it interesting the different concepts we both grabbed from this and how they differed. I more focused on expanding on the pessimistic aspects of the book such as the lack of passion being real, and you more focused on the inspirational aspect of his book and how your failures don't determine you but what you make out of those failures does.
ReplyDeleteEthan, I did not read this book, but it sounds like you enjoyed it. The exercise you suggested would be very fun for any student. Learning to fail is a key part of not just business, but life. Once you turn failure into knowledge, opportunities become endless. I'd be interested in reading this book myself.
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