1. The book that I chose for this assignment was How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams, so I will be following the assignment directions of Reading Reflection No. 2. From the title of this book, you can very easily guess what the general theme is of the book. Adams talks a lot about his personal experiences with failures in his life, how he seemed to fail over and over again, and how he still managed to learn from them and succeed. He goes over possible failures that can happen in our everyday lives with multiple different scenarios. He tells us what we can expect from these situations and also the best way to learn from them.
2. I think the book connected extremely well with what we are leaning in this class, especially since assignment 26 was all about failures from this past year of our lives and how we've learned from them. This book went further into the learning aspect of failures and really tried to instill in the reader's mind that failures are normal, and you can fail at almost everything you do but as long as you are learning from each failure you can still succeed in life greatly.
3. If I had to make an assignment after reading this book, it would be very similar to assignment 26 that we just did. I would want the students to come up with a couple different failures that they have experienced that relate directly to some of the failures that Adams talks about in the book. After they come up with them I would ask if they learned from the experience how Adams described to learn from it in his book. I would also ask how that learning experience from the failures may have been different if they had read this book beforehand.
4. I think the most surprising thing that I learned from reading this book was some of the failures that happen in my everyday life that I don't even think twice about. Some of the things that he discussed I had not really ever thought about before as a learning experience. I had previously just brushed them off as nothing, but now I know I can learn from it.
Hey Nick, nice post. This book that you read sounds like a book that is very connected with entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship seems to be about constantly refining your business based off of how you have failed with it. I think that learning to fail well is an integral skill in almost anything in life, and it seems like Adams agrees. I liked how you noted how we can "fail" in our everyday lives without even really realizing it. This is an interesting point. Nice post!
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