Week 8 Entrepreneurship Reflection
This week we started reading " A Field Guide for the Hero's Journey" chapters 5,6, and 8. We also read Jeffrey R. Holland's talk at BYU in 1983.
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/holland-jeffrey-r_however-long-hard-road/
and Thomas S. Monson's conference talk in 2008 after being set apart as the president of the church.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2008/04/looking-back-and-moving-forward?lang=eng
There were several short videos including one about Elder Holland trying to drive across the country twice and his car breaking down in the exact same spot both times.
Our topic this week was Overcoming Challenges and I enjoyed the reading. Chapter 5 "Stones in the Road" is about obstacles we might run into. We learn that it is by pushing through these obstacles that we become stronger. Paul said, "Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope."
I appreciate Theodore Roosevelt's quote, "It is hard to fail, but it is worse to never have tried."
I loved reading in both Elder Holland's speech and chapter 5 of Winston Churchill's speech. No wonder he was such a beloved man. He instilled great courage in a terrifying time for so many. My favorite part was when he said, "But we must learn to be equally good at what is short and sharp and what is long and tough. You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done. Those people who are imaginative see many more dangers than perhaps exist; certainly many more than will happen; but then they must also pray to be given the extra courage to carry this far reaching imagination."
I have experienced this many times. people make mountains out of mole hills. I have a young daughter that has a crazy imagination and I want to help her to channel it and use it to her benefit. Some people make fun of her ADD but I think it makes her her own unique sort of person that will one day do great things.
In Ch 6 "The Giant of Despair," I was inspired by the Holocaust man that wrote in his bunk "I believe in the sun even when it isn't shining, I believe in love even when I do not feel it, I believe in God even when He is silent." and Victor Hugo's poem Be like the Bird.
In Ch 8 "Fighting the Dragon," we read of David and Goliath. One of my favorite Bible stories. David's courage definitely came from God.
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/holland-jeffrey-r_however-long-hard-road/
and Thomas S. Monson's conference talk in 2008 after being set apart as the president of the church.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2008/04/looking-back-and-moving-forward?lang=eng
There were several short videos including one about Elder Holland trying to drive across the country twice and his car breaking down in the exact same spot both times.
Our topic this week was Overcoming Challenges and I enjoyed the reading. Chapter 5 "Stones in the Road" is about obstacles we might run into. We learn that it is by pushing through these obstacles that we become stronger. Paul said, "Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope."
I appreciate Theodore Roosevelt's quote, "It is hard to fail, but it is worse to never have tried."
I loved reading in both Elder Holland's speech and chapter 5 of Winston Churchill's speech. No wonder he was such a beloved man. He instilled great courage in a terrifying time for so many. My favorite part was when he said, "But we must learn to be equally good at what is short and sharp and what is long and tough. You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done. Those people who are imaginative see many more dangers than perhaps exist; certainly many more than will happen; but then they must also pray to be given the extra courage to carry this far reaching imagination."
I have experienced this many times. people make mountains out of mole hills. I have a young daughter that has a crazy imagination and I want to help her to channel it and use it to her benefit. Some people make fun of her ADD but I think it makes her her own unique sort of person that will one day do great things.
In Ch 6 "The Giant of Despair," I was inspired by the Holocaust man that wrote in his bunk "I believe in the sun even when it isn't shining, I believe in love even when I do not feel it, I believe in God even when He is silent." and Victor Hugo's poem Be like the Bird.
In Ch 8 "Fighting the Dragon," we read of David and Goliath. One of my favorite Bible stories. David's courage definitely came from God.
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