Week 2 - Questions

• Why do you think Randy Pausch was able to achieve so many of his childhood dreams?

In it, Randy ( who is diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer ) give some great thoughts on life. He says that tenacity is the key. "Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to to show how badly we want something."

• Do you feel that dreaming is important? Why or why not?

I feel like dreaming is very important. One thing about dreaming is that it doesn't necessarily have to be realistic. In dreams, anything is possible and our minds can be as creative as they want. There are no boundaries and no impossibilities. Snapping back to reality, our dreams allow us to attempt to create something that is impossible today, but might not be tomorrow. 

I think many people have dreams of flying but this guy actually decided to figure out how to do it. Pretty impressive for something cobbled out of zip ties, duct tape, a pair of pliers as a hand held accelerator and a bunch of electric motors. 

• Discuss at least one of your childhood dreams. Explain why you believe you can or cannot achieve this dream.

I honestly don't remember any of my childhood dreams. I've had other desires since. I really wanted to build some great speakers. I have them in my living room right now, almost completely built and am starting to test them and measure them today. It took me at least a year of research and a good solid several months to build them, but the dream is finally coming to fruition and I'm EXCITED. They should rival some very high end speakers in the 10's of thousands dollar range and be able to reproduce pretty much anything I want to throw at them. 

Until next week.

Week 1 - Feelings/Commence Launch

So, I'm starting the course B 183 entitled "Introduction to Entrepreneurship" at University this week. It requires a weekly blog post.

The purpose of the blog is to both chronicle events as well as record thoughts, feelings, and archive things that we learn or insights gained during the course.

Currently I feel a little overwhelmed as I've just started 3, 3 credit hour courses which all tell me they are actually going to take 9 hours a week. For me that is totaling 27 hours a week which should be interesting considering I have a full time job, a spouse and 1.5 kids. They need time to so the balancing act should be fun.

For the actual content this week, I really don't have much. The assignment was pretty much to introduce yourself to your fellow classmates, read or watch motivational content on leadership and start a blog. Check, check and check.

In the interest of attempting to do some further exploration, take a look at this article from Forbes on first impressions. I thought it was pretty interesting and laid out both side of a first impression not mattering at all but also that we have ingrained first impressions which may be very subconscious in nature.

The other content, aka required reading, I read through, point to the importance of self assessment and thinking of ourselves as always in a developing or changing stage. They talk about how to get our entrepreneurial juices flowing and then maintaining those good habits so as to "etch them onto your character".

All in all I think it will be an interesting ride throughout the semester. If you feel like it, subscribe to the blog as I'll be posting weekly insights into my course work. You might, just might, learn something fun along the way. I'll even try to include fun pictures as time permits.

Until next week.