Week 5

I loved this week’s video “A Hero’s Journey!” There were so many different key takeaways for me I don’t know where to start. I’ll first start with what the speaker said in the beginning, where he said that what matters most isn’t the prize at the end, but how the hero has changed in the process. To me this was everything because as we ponder on entrepreneurship one may think of how much money they can make or how profitable they want their business to grow, but we first must think of how the whole process has changed us for the better because that’s the most important thing.  That was something to ponder about as I watched the video. I also liked how he talked about finding great role models or mentors. He talks about how people that were over age 60 were asked what kind of advice they would give someone and he said there were three things that were common. These three things were 1) Have I contributed something meaningful 2) Was I good person and 3) Who did I love and who loved me. Hearing these questions were pretty deep to me because money or success doesn’t matter if we didn’t contribute something meaningful and/or  if we were a good and loving person. Another thing I really liked was how he talked about an experiment we could do with 5 people. He said to choose 5 people that know us pretty well, and to ask them for specifics, evidence, and examples of what they think they see in ourselves. He said in this way we can discover what some of our gifts are and what we are good at when we think those things are easy. I thought this was pretty neat and pondered on what a great idea this would be. Doing this can really help us find what we are good at and what some of our talents are if we don’t think of them already. All in all this was by far one of my favorite videos we have seen thus far since class started, and I’m glad I was able to listen to it all the way through!