21A- Reading Reflection No. 2

For this assignment, I read "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" by Scott Adams.

1. The overall theme of this book is regarding the fact Scott Adams has learned to leverage his failings in his life and take advantage of those failures to encourage and advance his own successes. Throughout the book, he covers several failures that he has encountered and explains how he used these failures to help his life.

2. This book was definitely relevant to what we learn in ENT, as while we are only pursuing one potential idea in ENT, it is very likely that a potential entrepreneur could need to pursue dozens of ideas before finding success. Therefore I think that this book is very necessary to connect to the curriculum in order to round out one's understanding of the subject.

3. If I had to design an exercise for this class based on this book, it would involve reading an article on a hypothetical product failure and using the information presented to design another product with improvements you received from your first reading.

4. One thing that I read that made things really click for me was that you can't expect people to behave rationally. I always try to think through things rationally and come up with deliberative solutions to problems. This is an ugly truth you have to keep in mind as an entrepreneur.