How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Scott Adams
1) The general theme or argument of the book was that it is okay to fail. Through failure one gains more experience and learns from their mistakes. It does not matter whether you have failed once or 100 times, each failure gives you an opportunity to learn. The challenge is to not become discouraged by failures and remain positive so you can "Win Big" in the future.
2) The book connected with what I am learning in ENT3003 because it reminds you that the product is far from perfect and to not be discouraged if not everyone loves the idea right away or if there are parts that do not make sense. Everything that does not make sense or appears to be wrong will teach you something that will help you out in the future.
3) If I had to design an exercise, I would lay out an adequately sized jigsaw puzzle, and give the player one minute to complete the whole thing. Once a minute passes, the whole puzzle will be destroyed. This will teach the player that failure is imminent and the player will realize that every time that he or she starts the puzzle over, he or she will do it faster since he or she can recognize the pieces that go first. Much like the book, you are learning more and more each time you fail.
4) I learned that it is good to follow systems instead of goals, because they are too specific and take a long time in order to achieve. If one creates and follows a system, you will be proud and content with the progress, rather than waiting for the result.
Through my management class, failure is one of the most important parts of any successful business. It is all about how you respond to failure and whether or not you shut down with it or use it for good. Not everyone needs to love you product, you are the only person that really needs to believe in it and eventually it might just work. About the puzzle idea though, you better have a tricky puzzle because I am the puzzle champ and will be that guy to actually solve it on the first try. That is what it is like growing up with old people. Lot of puzzles and board games.
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ReplyDeleteLike you I also read this book and found it to be quite enlightening and different. Most people approach failure as a bad thing but this book teaches you to embrace it and to let the failure teach you a thing about yourself and how to do better as it becomes a reference for the future to come. I fail so much and use it everyday to better myself.
Nice post, Diego! That book sounds like it would be a perfect reflection of this class. You keep one solid idea through out the class while you constantly fail and provide changes that will better reflect your product. Failure is definitely the best way to truly get better at something so im very glad this book resonated with you. Your puzzle idea also seems like a very unique way to introduce failure to students and allow them to grow from it.
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