Halfway reflection

With this course, I’ve learned that an entrepreneur pays attention to everything, not what the normal person would pay attention to. Entrepreneurs can find it in themselves their next project, even just based off of things that bug them. I’ve learned just how much goes into being an entrepreneur, many things like buyer behavior, how to make an elevator pitch, the difference between an invention and innovation.

I’ve already felt moments where I wanted to give up on this course, before even reaching the halfway mark. When it came to the first interviews of this course, before we learned how to give the right interview. Also, the week after that with the amount of homework due, researching in newspapers and more interviews. What kept pulling me through was how happy and relieved I would feel after those assignments were completed, and how it’d feel overall at the end of the semester being able to complete this course. I feel like with what I’ve learned so far in our lessons I’ve been given the tools for a tenacious attitude. The experiences that contributed to my tenacious attitude would be more and more interviews, and creating my first product idea and being confident in it after all the pieces came together.

The tips I would offer to foster tenacity is follow everything the teacher lectures on- how to give an elevator pitch, how to interview people you don’t know; keep repeatedly using those skills- so keep interviewing people; and to work ahead to give room for more creative thinking. And to develop the tenacious mindset it helps to follow the example of the other students in the course (especially those who post weeks in advance), it will take time to develop this mindset (I’m still learning), read the books on the reading list it follows other entrepreneurs tenacious mindset.