Reading Reflection #2

Reading Reflection #2

1. For my second reading Reflection in this class, I decided to read and analysis Mindset By Carol Dweck. I decided to read this book because of its availability on the UF online library and the fact that it talked about how a mindset can set you up for success of failure. The most important theme of Mindset the new physiology of success by Carol Dweck is that the view that you adopt of yourself, the attitude that you have about yourself and your life, can either set you up for success or failure. It explains how theirs a difference in a stone mindset, where you believe your qualities are set in stone, and the growth mindset that you can cultivate good qualities through practice and effort. It shows that if we have the mindset to always get better, make ourselves better, not be scared of trying and failing. The set in stone mindset will not try new things, while the growing attitude will continue to try new things, even if failing , and will learn these new qualities. The book describes how our whole lives, our daily actions all come down to our mindset if were willing to fail and grow, or scared to try because its just not for you. This book shows us the mindset that we need to have to be succesful, how important it is to fail in order to be succesful and how just our attitude is enough to determine our whole lives. 
2. This book was heavily connected with what Ive learned in Ent3003, Ent3003 has taught me that to be an entrepreneur one must be tenacious, one must fail and be able to try again, one must be able to see things from a different perspective to see possible solutions, and this whole book is based off the fact that we need a growth attitude to be able to succeed. This growth attitude is exactly what is needed to be a succesful entrepreneur , and is the same as the things taught in this class like how to rebound after constant failure. 
3. If I had to design an exercise for this class based on what I think this book taught me, I would try to create an exercise almost like the elevator pitch idea connected with the interview assignments. I would make an exercise were you would have to pitch your business idea to a set group of people who would immediately shut it down, and see how you react and try to come back from it . It would be longer then an elevator speech to give the student time to try to come back from the first failure and prove that they have this growth state of mind.
4. My biggest surprise in this book was honestly how true what she says is when thinking about life and the people I know in my life. When she explains how an attitude leads to your actions which leads to your life, and how people with certain attitudes all seem to fail, and successful people most of the time have a lot of the same positive attributes that start of with this mindset of constantly growing and not being scared of failing.