21A – Reading Reflection No. 2

Book) How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams

1) The theme of this book is basically all about preparation for one's future. The author explained thoroughly that running a system in life is the ultimate way to be a "winner", it is how winners run and live their lives. He stated that losers have goals and winners have systems. Basically, he was saying having goals keeps you in constant failure until you have achieved that goal of yours, and even then your satisfaction isn't long-lasting.

2) This book helps enhance your knowledge of what life is like in the business world and how one needs to operate in it to become a "winner" or successful person. In this class, we are learning how to not only generate creative ideas, but the steps to pursue those ideas and map out a business model to make that idea a reality; and this book goes deeper into that aspect in a more general viewpoint, it is more about mapping your life out and heading it to the direction you want it to be at.

3) The exercise I would create would be to make all students take their "career goals" and form a proper system on how to get to those "goals". This would help students realize how much more reliable and effective systems are and actually benefit them with their current dreams in their careers. It will teach them organization and control.

4) The biggest moment in this book that shocked me was something I have always thought in my head to myself over the years, but always thought it was "wrong" of me to think. That is the art of being selfish. Our whole lives we are taught to think about others and family comes first, to always not be a selfish person but to be caring and generous. In this book, the author describes how important it is to be selfish and why you need to be selfish when it is about your life. The reason was that it is YOUR life and no one else's, which makes every decision you make for yourself effect it, so why wouldn't be selfish to better your life as the result... you would and you should, because nothing else should matter besides how you are and feel about your situation because that is the right you have to your life.