21A Reading Reflection No. 2

• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Scott Adams

1.) The overarching theme for this book followed the life of Scott Adams, and how throughout the road to success there is often a permissive belief that one may have a great deal of control over the journey one takes and the obstacles you will face, instead 60% luck and 40% work. This is because on the road to success it is filled with unforeseeable failure.  Failure provides lessons and each time you will make mistakes you will begin to see different paths close and open.

2.) The book emphasized a series of important features concerning how to run a business and the importance of taking your passions into a physical manifestations of a business that can work, one aspect of the book was called "Passion is BullShit" i was immediately surprised at the title but quickly after reading more realized the connection to ENT 3003. The purpose of a business and a well-trained entrepreneur is to make an opportunity out of something you can see off a spreadsheet not something you can see through a smile. This seeks to enhance our discussion and lesson in class about seeing opportunities and understanding if they are actually lucrative.

3.) I would make students make a list of things the wish had solutions and then make another list for students to add their passions they would pursue if money was not even a consideration. If at any point along both lists, you see that their is an interaction, some form of intersection then that is a business proposal worth following.

4.)Q.  What is the Key to Success?

anwser: Hire the Employees.

Q. How do You Know you Hired the Right one?

You know because the business is successful.

Q. So the key to success is circular reasoning?

Yes because circular reasoning is the key to success.

This simple exchange in the book showed me how the simplification of success is boiled down to a few factors and how often times we seek complicated solution for complicated problems but forget to see the tree within the forest and start with small components before moving on into bigger ones, once you have started seeing a little success all that is necessary is to restart the process again, like a circle.