27A: Reading Reflection No. 3
How to Fail at almost everything & Still Win Big: Scott Adams
In my opinion, Scott Adams' novel is like no other "career" novel. Instead of covering the cliches of career advice, Adams recounts the ups and downs of his career, revealing the outside role of luck in our lives and how to best play the system. Unlike most novelists, Adams doesn't hide his failures, and admits he has likely failed at more things than anyone you've ever met. Adams covers his life story and game plan he followed since he was a teen, to invite failure, embrace it, then pick it's pocket, all that steps that took him from a simple office worker and serial failure to the creator of Dilbert, one of the worlds most famous comic strips.
This book, ironically, directly related to the last blog post I wrote. 26A was specifically about celebrating failure, and this book was the epitome of "celebrating failure" in our lives in order to lead to a greater accomplishment. Within lectures we've touched on failure and risk taking on multiple occasions, and Adams highlighted these within his novel as well, but with the addition of personal experiences, that ended up making this whole topic much more relatable for me.
26A would honestly be a direct example of an exercise I personally would've given the class, but I just did it, and most of my classmates will be doing so as well. I believe that celebrating failure is important, as well as looking back on your past failures, and celebrating how far you've come from them as a person.
I think my biggest surprise when reading the book was how open Adams was to share how unsuccessful he was. I feel like most people try to paint this picture perfect life for themselves, especially in novels, but Adams was upfront, raw, and honest, showing us the real him. It made the book much easier to read and more relatable.
Hello again Kasey! I think that you made a great choice by choosing this book as your last reading reflection because it gave you useful information on how to overcome failure as you described in your last post 26A. In addition, this book seems like a very interesting reading because of the aspects you described on how the author is very honest on how he achieved success.
ReplyDeleteHi again Kasey! I hope you are doing well and that you had a nice Thanksgiving break. I really enjoyed reading about your book reflection, and thought that this was a great book to read. I wish I read it! You had a really good summary and I liked your idea of a class assignment. Good work Kasey!
ReplyDeleteHey Kasey, I am glad that you picked this book because I also read it and found it interesting to learn about this book and the author. Although I didn't expect much from this book coming from a guy that writes comic strips, it taught me life lessons which I really appreciate. In addition, I also agree that it was really surprising and interesting to know that Scott Adams was open about his failures and how he overcame them.
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