13A – Reading Reflection No. 1



1) You read about an entrepreneur:

What surprised you the most?

How he didn’t want for this book to be published without him correcting it and approving it.

What about the entrepreneur did you most admire?

His intellectual capacities are amazing, he has always been a role model for me.

What about the entrepreneur did you least admire?

How stubborn sometimes he is and how he fires a lot of employees for small mistakes.

Did the entrepreneur encounter adversity and failure? If so, what did they do about it?

Plenty of times, most of the times expensive failures, he knows how to get himself back up by looking for possible alternatives, he also considers failure and option and therefore knows how to recover from it

2) What competencies did you notice that the entrepreneur exhibited?

Challenge- taker. Hard work and he loves what he does, he doesn’t care about the time he spends working because it is what he likes to do. His behavior also makes him a perfectionist.

3) Identify at least one part of the reading that was confusing to you.

About him studying the less-developed country debt and how he found an opportunity in one of the businesses listed there.

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

What his feelings were when the first 3 SpaceX rocket launches failed. I would ask about this because when the fourth one was launched there were two chances: going completely bankrupt or obtaining a billion dollar contract from NASA.

5) For fun: what do you think the entrepreneur's opinion was of hard work? Do you share that opinion?

His opinion on hard work is to just make it happen. It is more about achieving personal goals than actually having a positive or negative attitude. I do share this opinion, hard work comes by itself when you really set your mind into something and make it happen.

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