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The theme of this book is that failure is not a sign of actual failure. Failure is more of a tool that gets us to success by learning and getting perfect at what we are aiming for. Scott Adams was a person that failed on almost everything he tried to achieve. His investments failed, his corporate career failed, and yet he was able to create Dilbert. One of the most famous comic strips of history. The book allows us to take a deep insight into scoot Adam's personal life, his inventions, failures success and how to get over failure.
The life of an entrepreneur is a life full of failure. Failure in the entrepreneurship world is almost guaranteed. However, we still dare to embrace what we think is going to be beneficial for us. In my opinion, this book connects perfectly with ENT3003. It is a book that talks about a man that failed at almost everything and in the end he had success because his persistence paid off. This is a book that will enable entrepreneurs that there are some little things that we often don’t this when we fail at something. Through failure, we get experience to get perfect at what we are trying to achieve.
I would ask every student to describe a detailed situation of one time they faced failure and how they overcome it. Failure is inevitable in life. Nobody is perfect. Especially in the business world. The focus of this assignment would be to think about how that particular failure situation helps us achieve what we had in life. This book describes failure as a tool. A tool that will help us achieve success if we persist.
Before this assignment, I knew who Scott Adams was but I did not know how he achieved what he had. The biggest surprise moment of this book was his personal life. When reading this book I was only expecting some failure situations and how to overcome them. However, that was not the case. Scott Adams tells the story of his life in his book. He describes every situation in which he faced failure in life. He failed at a lot of his ideas, investments, aspirations and yet he was able to become an important public figure. I learned a lot from this book because it not only tells you how to overcome failure but to also what to expect out of it. For example, from failure, we can get experience and patience. This book is also full of tips and how to be more productive about what we do. It is a book for an entrepreneur that is trying to have a better chance of having success.
Hey David,
ReplyDeleteSounds like we read the same book about failures! It sucks that as entrepreneurs we are supposed to experience failures and thrive in it. Adam made failure into something positive, which makes failure at little less scary at least for me. I am glad the author was so open about his failures in a lot of details because we can only learn from him. Good job!
David,
ReplyDeleteWe seemed to have read the same book! I was very interested in your thoughts about some of his ideals and strategies to becoming successful. I do love how he turns failure into something of a tool to further reach success. Without failure, you can never truly be the best version of yourself either. I really liked your exercise idea about being given a situation of failure and working on how to overcome it and turn it into a tool for further success. Great post!