1) What was the general theme or argument of the book?
The general theme of How to fail at almost everything and still win big is to teach readers that failure is okay, and that many people who eventually succeed have failed many times in their lives. Failure is a very common occurrence, and as long as one is able to bounce back from their failures and setbacks, then they can get somewhere in life eventually. People should not set goals, but rather systems, so that they can adjust to whatever happens in lives, because life is very dynamic and sometimes things would not work out the way one wants it to work.
2) How did the book, in your opinion, connect with and enhance what you are learning in ENT 3003?
This book enhances what we are learning in ENT 3003 because Pryor really emphasizes that successful people have often failed in the past. Those who are motivated are undeterred by failure, and would keep going and bounce back from setbacks to get where they want to go. Young people often rush to get successful, but success does not come for everyone very easily.
3) If you had to design an exercise for this class, based on the book you read, what would that exercise involve?
I would design an exercise that is just like a system mentioned in this book. The exercise would be dynamic and have changing parts that would set the person in the exercise back in ways that would be unpredictable so the person could learn to adjust to changes in their environment and be adaptable. The exercise may even end in a different way that the person would have thought.
4) What was your biggest surprise or 'aha' moment when reading the book? In other words, what did you learn that differed most from your expectations?
What differed from my expectations the most is the fact that the book looks down upon goal-setting when goal setting is something that a lot of people do to make sure that they are on track towards the path of success. Goal-setting has always been a big deal to me and something that I have always implemented in my life, but I think with my mentality, I can follow the advice of this book and make changes.
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Hi Duc,
ReplyDeleteI read this book for my second reading reflection and I also got the same takeaways that you did. I think that failure is a big part of success and this book really shows you how most people do fail before they succeed. I also think that this book connected well with what we have learned in ENT3003 and it was cool to see real life examples of what Dr. Pryor talks about in class. Good job this week!
Duc, I wrote about the same book during my second reading reflection. I thought your idea for the assignment you would make is very cool. Having a system that shows people different kinds of failures, even if it is not necessarily 'real' would be beneficial for students as they analyze the ways they can bounce back from their failures and ultimately find great success.
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ReplyDeleteI also read this book, but for the 2nd reading reflection instead of the first. I think that the skill your exercise teaches is very important as you never know how things are going to change so adapting is very important. I also found it surprising that goal setting was discouraged by the book as it is something that most people do in life.
Hi Duc,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your description of this book. When I was reading my book I also thought that it had great lessons that I thought did a good job of applying what I had learned in this class. I may have to read your book because it had to deal with goal setting which I believe to be very important like you said. Great post.
This is a good post. I also had this book as one of my reading assignments and I enjoyed the book and what it had to say about failure. It is complementary to the last assignment and talks about how failure is not the end of the world. I wish that I had made the same decision as you and done this book now after the last assignment so that they complemented each other well.
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