How To Fail At Almost Everything and Still Win Big (READING REFLECTION)

Scott Adams understands and reveals a lot about human psychology in his book "How To Fail At Almost Everything and Still Win Big."

Let's dive into his understanding even further by bringing in a second opinion...

General Theme

Invite failure in, except and embrace it, and then pick it apart by taking those aspects and applying them differently.

Is success correlated to luck? Or does luck find us when we need it, like a kind of karma?

Connect/Enhance

Adams book allowed me to connect and enhance what I have been learning by giving me a different outlook on how to go about my day to day "work" life (or not so work life). This class has overall taught me a lot about reaching into my creative mind and breaking it down into pieces that can later be evaluated and reflected on for an ultimately better outcome. We cannot expect much from consumers, because odds are they don't know what they expect or need either. Thus, excepting that opportunities will be limited and hindered by other people is vital, especially throughout the entrepreneurship process. Throughout my blogging experience I was asked to give honest and mindful feedback to my peers, another connection to Adams' work, where he insists we voice praise where praise is thought about. Also, we have learned a ton about how to be a successful entrepreneur, using a step by step business process, and the author notes how learning new things generally increases your mental state of optimism, increasing ones energy. Furthermore, Adams talks about being a serial entrepreneur as using a system, rather than reaching for goals that you may never obtain. Throughout this class we have used a system of reflection and organization that has abled us to see our business idea from a broader prospective; Adams talks about the use of a systematic approach being more successful versus a goal reaching approach. Systems increase your odds of success, systems thinkers simplify rather than optimize, which I feel as if this class has taught us to do well. Ultimately, we have created a confident demeanor for ourselves as we have thoroughly picked apart our business idea week by week by week.    

Designing an Exercise

I would design an exercise about reality versus fictional ideals. This exercise would have us depict and take apart different aspects of multiple finished systematic business plans and put a plan together that uses the real aspects of what a business plan should incorporate. This would mean that some of the steps in each of the different plans would be completely fictional, the challenge would be to have to separate those fictional ideals and make a systematic business plan that is functional and obtainable. 

AHA Moments

I really enjoyed how the author talked about selfishness. I believe that being selfless is extremely important in life, but the author disagrees and believes that one must take care of themselves first and then help others. I began to think this is true as well as I continued to read because if you are not in a good place then how could you possibly help others get to their good place? 

I also reflected back heavily on the aspect of being able to modify your perceptions. Not everyone views life the same and being able to tweek and loosen your mind to fit a variety of perspectives would be life changing. This is an aspect of philosophy that I love. I find philosophy extremely interesting because it is the exact nature of how people think and how people act. It is okay to accept you are wrong, and more people need to learn this skill set in order to be ultimately a better individual. 

The last mind-blowing aspect of this book is how goals are seen as unsuccessful in comparison to setting up an organized system of obtaining what you want to achieve. Goals are set in the future and we hope to one day achieve our goals, but in reality... how do we get there? Exactly why systems are made. Systems are made like a path that we step on foot by foot in order to one day reach Oz.