September 24th, 2016
So I have learned a few things from this week's lessons, but I feel Tom Kelly's video about experiments hit me the most. In it he talked about how successful people don't get things right on the first try. It is after tons of experiments that they find something that is worth selling. One of my favorite parts is when Kelly talked about Thomas Edison and how he failed over 10,000 times trying to get the right filament for the light bulb, but Edison didn't consider it failing, he figured that he found 10,000 ways it didn't work. I need to change my outlook on everything to that of Edison because I am by far not that optimistic. I'm sure I would be happier in my life if I looked at everything that way. Anyway, Kelly also said that since we were children, our moms have taught us to follow thing through and finish thing. So if we see a three hundred page book we may skip over it. We don't realize that we can just read the first ten pages and if we don't like it, put it back but if we do, keep going. We goes on to compare that to other things in life but I never thought about it that way so I'm glad I got to hear that. We also listened to Randy Pausch's last lecture. He accomplished many things in his life time and I believe he did this by actually putting forth the effort that others would not to accomplish his childhood dreams. He said there is a brick wall separating us from our dreams and it's there so people who want to achieve them can figure out a way over but it stops those who aren't as dedicated from getting in. I feel dreaming is important because if you don't have something you want to do, then you will just follow the crowd and end up doing something that makes you bitter. One of my childhood dreams is to open up a restaurant and I do feel it is possible to do it if I work hard enough so I am earning my bachelor's degree in business management so I can someday achieve that.
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Saturday, September 17, 2016
First Week Of Knowledge
September 17th, 2016
It is the end of the first week of classes of my first semester of college. What have I learned? I don't feel like I learned so much about business but more so about life lessons. I watched a video of a speaker named Guy Kawasaki that made me think. He said not to go into things that are popular now but into something you love to do. If you do something you don't enjoy just for the money you will grow miserable and hate your job. Kawasaki then went on to say that his parents wanted him to be a lawyer so he went to law school and dropped out in ten days because he hated it. He said he considered himself lucky because some people go to law school for two years, then take the bar exam, and then twenty years later, they realize that that isn't what they wanted to do and he was lucky he figured that out in ten days. That really struck a chord with me and made me think," Do I really want to be in business and maybe open one myself?" I don't really know? Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but it won't hurt to have this extra knowledge under my belt. Another thing we read in class called "The Start-up Of You" by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha, made me think as well. There was a section in there about planning. It said how you should have a plan A, plan B, and plan Z. The plan Z is what really caught my attention. So plan A is what your typical plan A would be with coming up with your main goal that you want to achieve. Plan B is the fall back plan. You do plan B if plan A doesn't work out or it helps you achieve your goal in some faster way. Plan Z, which you normally don't hear, is your fall back plan. This is the plan you do when all of your plans fail and you have nothing left, when you need to completely start over from the beginning. As I was reading it thought about whether I had a plan Z or not. I never really thought of myself failing before, so in the next few weeks I guess I will think of a plan Z and later report on it.
It is the end of the first week of classes of my first semester of college. What have I learned? I don't feel like I learned so much about business but more so about life lessons. I watched a video of a speaker named Guy Kawasaki that made me think. He said not to go into things that are popular now but into something you love to do. If you do something you don't enjoy just for the money you will grow miserable and hate your job. Kawasaki then went on to say that his parents wanted him to be a lawyer so he went to law school and dropped out in ten days because he hated it. He said he considered himself lucky because some people go to law school for two years, then take the bar exam, and then twenty years later, they realize that that isn't what they wanted to do and he was lucky he figured that out in ten days. That really struck a chord with me and made me think," Do I really want to be in business and maybe open one myself?" I don't really know? Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but it won't hurt to have this extra knowledge under my belt. Another thing we read in class called "The Start-up Of You" by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha, made me think as well. There was a section in there about planning. It said how you should have a plan A, plan B, and plan Z. The plan Z is what really caught my attention. So plan A is what your typical plan A would be with coming up with your main goal that you want to achieve. Plan B is the fall back plan. You do plan B if plan A doesn't work out or it helps you achieve your goal in some faster way. Plan Z, which you normally don't hear, is your fall back plan. This is the plan you do when all of your plans fail and you have nothing left, when you need to completely start over from the beginning. As I was reading it thought about whether I had a plan Z or not. I never really thought of myself failing before, so in the next few weeks I guess I will think of a plan Z and later report on it.
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