21A – Reading Reflection No. 2

For the second reading reflection, I chose "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big." Overall, the book talks about how Scott Adams learned the biggest lessons of life and business through his failures. The failures in life are seen as learning lessons and can be applied in everyday life. He also talks about taking risks and how those can also serve as learning lessons to be applied in life. This book connects with the class because the class is all about invoking entrepreneurial spirit in students and making them realize the process of starting a business. This book enhances and enforces those ideas. If I had to make an exercise for the class based on this book, I would encourage students to keep track of things in their day that do not go their way, or lessons that they can learn from things that go wrong. This will make students realize that a lesson can be drawn from all possible situations that go right or wrong. The biggest "aha" moment for me when reading the book is when Adams talks about risk taking. I also believe that risk taking is necessary for evolution of thoughts and for the increase in productivity.