Shawn Davis
21A
– Reading Reflection No. 2
“How
to fail at almost everything and still win big” by Scott Adams is about how one
should be able to invite failure into their lives and how to embrace it and how
to have it do the most for you that you can. There are parts in the book that
are very real bout how not everyone success is going to be the same and how to
achieve your big goals. Thins book enhanced what I learned in ENT in many ways
specifically with the idea of being creative in what you do. Just like in class
with the activity of the idea napkins it is always best with ideas to be blatantly
creative with them. One of the ideas that was addressed in this book was that
you need to be able to depend on people for being responsible in the process of
achieving your goals. The biggest thing that I learned from this book that surprised
me that in the promotion it is sometimes necessary to be selfish and that to me
was shocking to because some people would deter you from being selfish saying it’s
a bad trait to have. But he author of this book is saying that it’s something you’re
going to need to have in order to be successful.
I agree with you when you said that you were shocked that someone would characterize selfishness as a good trait when it comes to trying to advance your career and although most of us grow up being told that selfishness is not an admirable trait it can sometimes be essential in advancing our position. It really sounds like this was a good book and it makes me curious to read it myself.
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