Assignment 21A

Mindset the new psychology of success is a book by Carol Dweck that focuses on how to optimize the way you think to bring about success and actually keep yourself motivated and how a lot of success comes from a specific mindset that you have to have. It focuses on persistence, on confidence, and that a continued sense and love for learning is what will help you make it or break it as an entrepreneur. I think that a good exercise related to this book for the class might be to create mind maps of our ideas, what we’d like to learn about the ideas we don’t know much about, what are the ideas that scare us most, and how we can overcome those fears. An activity geared more towards breaking down mental barriers that keep us trapped in and afraid to pursue something really great for fear of not knowing enough or failing. Maybe an activity geared towards having to fail and start over again. The book connected with the course because the course is more about the business and actual developmental side but creating a business or putting an idea your passionate about out their for criticism can take a lot out of you mentally so learning how to program your mindset for success is absolutely important, it’s the other side of the coin: business on one side, personal on the other. My biggest surprise or “aha” moment was when I realized that I hadn’t pursued any of my ideas beforehand because I was thinking about it all wrong. For me entrepreneurship was a way to bring about a wealthy and eased-back lifestyle where I wouldn’t have to worry about working anymore but that’s not what it is. Entrepreneurs have to work ten times as hard and want to continue learning about new things and upping their ideas.