Behaviors I have developed to keep up with the requirements
of this course are to work ahead and plan ahead. Working and planning in this class is key, as
most of the interactive assignments may take more than one day to
complete. Doing this takes a lot of
stress off this class, and makes it easier to keep with the amount of
assignments this 4-credit class has.
A moment I felt like giving up during this course was doing
my 3rd round of interviews for my product. By then I was getting kind of sick of
approaching strangers, and on this particular slow day, I had trouble finding
people willing to take the time out of their day to be interviewed for my
product. However, I stuck it out and
pulled through, and ended up getting some great feedback on my product that
gave me a bunch of great ideas on ways to improve it. If I had given up, I would have never gotten
this feedback and would have missed out on a great opportunity. I do feel like I have developed a slightly
more tenacious attitude in the past 2 months, and nothing in particular has
contributed to this, but going through this class as a whole has led to this
attitude.
The three tips I would give to foster the skills that
support tenacity and to develop a tenacious mindset are to:
1. Keep working even
when it gets hard
2. Just because you
don’t notice improvements right away doesn’t mean that nothing is happening and
3. Trying something
and failing really isn’t a failure, because you learned that that way just
doesn’t work.
Hi! I totally agree with the tips you gave out. I feel it is important to plan out the assignments and their due dates to steer us away from possibly losing points, especially since, yes, this is a four-credit course. I completely understand how you feel about asking for interviews because I also felt like giving up during that time in the class. I also rose to the challenge and realized that it was very helpful to get feedback from others even if I had to leave my comfort zone. I also thought you gave out good tips. They are similar to mine except I didn't mention the "keeping working even when it gets hard" part but it's something I aim to do.
ReplyDeleteHere is the link to my posting if you're interested! http://myentrepreneurshipinizio.blogspot.com/2016/02/half-way-reflection.html
ReplyDeleteI agree that planning is probably the most important part of this class. You can get behind so quickly if you don't plan out when you are going to do your assignments. I also felt like giving up during the customer interview assignments. It got aannyoing going up to random people and asking them questions but I need gaining great responses and insight. I really like your second tip because in this course improvements will not be visible right away but you still have to push forward. Check put my post here: http://thomasmurphy-ent3003.blogspot.com/2016/02/half-way-reflection.html
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