Reading Reflection: 13 A

1) You read about an entrepreneur: Steve Jobs

· What surprised you the most? The fact that his course of life hasn’t always been as easy as we may think

· What about the entrepreneur did you most admire? His vision for MAC

· What about the entrepreneur did you least admire? His college “career”

· Did the entrepreneur encounter adversity and failure? If so, what did they do about it? Yes, he did encounter a lot of adversity, especially when he first launched “MAC” but he didn’t give up and learned from the market in order to avoid making the same mistakes again.

2) What competencies did you notice that the entrepreneur exhibited? Steve Jobs wants to learn from others. The best example of this phenomenon is the time he spent in India to understand the culture and mentality better.

3) Identify at least one part of the reading that was confusing to you. On Chapter 9 “ Going Public, A Man of Wealth and Fame”, it confused me that Walter Isaacson went from telling us the struggling battle to success of Steve Jobs to the luxuous life of Steve Jobs. It’s almost like there was nothing between these two periods of time. It confused me a lot.


4) If you were able to ask two questions to the entrepreneur, what would you ask? Why?

My question would be: If you had to do it all over again, what would you do differently?

I would ask this question because even if apple is a success model, I am sure that there are plenty of things that he regrets or would have done differently.

5) For fun: what do you think the entrepreneur's opinion was of hard work? Do you share that opinion?
I think that he believed in the American dream. In this idea that if you work hard enough, you will get rewarded. He never gave up on this idea, even during some troubling times. Me too, I believe in this idea of the “American dream”. This idea that our future is determined by no one else but ourselves. No government, no competitor can destroy your dreams if you believe hard enough in them.