Completely rewiring the idea of how to succeed, Scott Adam’s How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big introduces the new game plan to succeed at life. In it Adams discusses the problem with classical beliefs regarding success. For example, being goal-oriented is incredibly powerful, but is easily eclipsed through orienting one’s self through systemic approaches to problem-solving. This is a common strategy employed by EMT professionals. Another core perception is the importance of psychology, and this rings a bell in understanding the importance of maintaining cognizance of your appearance. For example, when others disagree with you and you see them as being completely wrong, they see you the same way, and understanding that is how you can navigate the waters of discourse.
Smith’s revolution of success strategizing follows through with many of the themes we have been learning in class, and I believe what makes many of his innovations so innovative is how simple they are: they’re not obvious because of how obvious they are. Staring you right in the face, these ideas are effective means of novel entrepreneurship. I connected with the system ideology mostly because of my experience with emergency medicine, and the Gainesville Fire Chief’s focus on systemic thinking being the difference between saved lives and lost ones.
An idea for a workshop I would use in class based on what I learned from this book would be to split the class up into two groups based on student’s views of a dichotomous issue and then place them into smaller groups composed of half of each side. Then have them debate while being recorded on camera, followed by them seeing talking about how the other half looked, only to see that they appeared the same way.
The most surprising thing I read in the book was the idea of appearance, because that example is so breathtaking that it hits you in the face.
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