Assignment 13: Reading Reflection, Number 1
So for my reading reflection I went with the Wright Brothers. Why not? They build airplanes and got them to fly right? Well I did learn some interesting things that I didn't already know, so lets get into it.
1. My most surprising thing for me was learning that their first patent was not actually for the airplane, but for the three-axis control that they build. This is what allowed them to turn the plane, and is actually the invention that they created that furthered our ability to fly.
2. I think the thing that I admire most was their determination. The fact that they climb a hill as many times as possible so that they could test their inventions and gains skills to become pilots. I guess that would include that I admire their courage too. I don't know if I could throw my self off a hill and see if I could fly.
3. I personally didn't find anything to really not admire about them. I guess I was a little disappointed do find that either of them receive their high school diploma, but for the time that is not uncommon, so mostly I am just pulling hairs with this.
4. Of course the brother's experienced failure. They were trying to build and airplane. That does not happen overnight. And they had adversity in the fact that people told them it could not be done.
5. Personally when asked, "What competencies did you notice that the entrepreneur exhibited?" This confused me as competence means the ability to do something successfully or efficiently. I mean the brothers did eventually succeed after a lot of trial and error. So maybe they were not exactly efficient as this process takes time and used up material resources as well. But they were indeed successful in the end.
6. Nothing about the book confused me. If anything I personally liked the writing types as it was done as if you were walking through the story with the characters.
7. If I could ask them two question it would be, "What made them so sure this would work?" Was it the fact that with every test they seemed closer to fixing the problems? And how did failure really effect them? Did it make them hopeless? How did they get based that feeling of giving up? Maybe that more than two, but you get the idea.
8. I think that their opinion of hard work would be that it is necessary. Which I would agree with, but I also believe that hard work as its place. You don't need to make something more complicated, but because it seems too easy.
1. My most surprising thing for me was learning that their first patent was not actually for the airplane, but for the three-axis control that they build. This is what allowed them to turn the plane, and is actually the invention that they created that furthered our ability to fly.
2. I think the thing that I admire most was their determination. The fact that they climb a hill as many times as possible so that they could test their inventions and gains skills to become pilots. I guess that would include that I admire their courage too. I don't know if I could throw my self off a hill and see if I could fly.
3. I personally didn't find anything to really not admire about them. I guess I was a little disappointed do find that either of them receive their high school diploma, but for the time that is not uncommon, so mostly I am just pulling hairs with this.
4. Of course the brother's experienced failure. They were trying to build and airplane. That does not happen overnight. And they had adversity in the fact that people told them it could not be done.
5. Personally when asked, "What competencies did you notice that the entrepreneur exhibited?" This confused me as competence means the ability to do something successfully or efficiently. I mean the brothers did eventually succeed after a lot of trial and error. So maybe they were not exactly efficient as this process takes time and used up material resources as well. But they were indeed successful in the end.
6. Nothing about the book confused me. If anything I personally liked the writing types as it was done as if you were walking through the story with the characters.
7. If I could ask them two question it would be, "What made them so sure this would work?" Was it the fact that with every test they seemed closer to fixing the problems? And how did failure really effect them? Did it make them hopeless? How did they get based that feeling of giving up? Maybe that more than two, but you get the idea.
8. I think that their opinion of hard work would be that it is necessary. Which I would agree with, but I also believe that hard work as its place. You don't need to make something more complicated, but because it seems too easy.
Jumping off a hill with the risk of dying or getting severely injured is definitely courageous. That determination to want to fly is the epitome of being an entrepreneur. They risked everything, took a lot of failures, kept working at it, and if they failed no one would know about them. All the risk and they continued to pursue it is courageous and hard work.
ReplyDeleteI feel that their greatest competency was probably persistency. They had to overcome repeated failures to eventually experience success. That is incredibly difficult to stay focused when you have naysayers, challenges, and failures over and over again. While I have had my fair amount of adversity starting my businesses, I don't think I can even compare to the adversities that they faced.
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