Reading Reflection

The book that I decided to report on is called: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. This book focuses on switching up our mindsets from wanting to reach a goal, but wanting to build a system. A goal is something that has many flaws, and may or may not be attainable, while the same can’t be said about a system. Additionally, the author made it a point to talk about risk taking. How to find a place where you are the most comfortable taking risks, and start there. There were many connections between the book, and the class that we are currently in, but the thing that jumped out to me, would have to be failure. Failure is something that’s necessary, and unavoidable on the road to success. This reminded me of an assignment that forces us to celebrate our failures. As we know nothing in life worth having is easy, and this book makes very clear, and falling down isn’t important. The most important thing about falling down is the way you get up and keep moving; what do you do next? On another note, an exercise that I would develop for this class would be a reflection exercise. I would ask the students to come up with a business idea; like small lemonade stand, and test it out. Afterwards, I would ask them to reflect on their downfalls, and what didn’t make their business the “best”. After reflection I would ask them to try again, and see if those necessary changes made their business better. I hope this would show them that b y failing they were able to make a business so much better than what they thought. I think my lightbulb moment was the highlight on failure. It’s not that I didn’t know that failure was inevitable, but I didn’t know how important failure was for success. Failure oftentimes makes us discouraged, but this book helped me see failure as more than me falling short, but as a stepping stone for my advancement to true success.