#entreprenurialmind

DAY 1: SELF-AWARENESS

Every good entrepreneur started on knowing who they are. The awareness and discovery they took to know their strength, weaknesses, and passion helps them become better and survive on the world of innovation and businesses. And with that I can’t help but also wonder, “What are my strength and passion that makes me unique despite of the weaknesses?” I hate change. One of the things I couldn’t cope up with is change. This little child inside me wants comfort and advanced spoilers in life. The unbearably torturing sensation I must endure to succeed and become better. But that’s not how real-world works. This might be the reason why reading books has become my hobby and my lifetime passion. When I read, it gives me a timeless portal to a wide range of possibilities. It made me associate and interact to other people’s life and gain plenty of inspirations just by reading. Reading books connects me to different perspective in life. It somehow gives me idea and preparation on a variety of situations and circumstances more than my experiences. It develops my ability of imagination that helps me become creative on different situations. Furthermore, my unrecognizable strength and capacity to withstand difficulties that life has thrown – Resilience.  Most of us believe that to achieve greatness and improvement, one must go outside their comfort zone and learn from their failure and I did. Out of nowhere, my super strength of flexibility and endurance then soon to be developed. I actually believe these are my entrepreneurial skills and capabilities that I can confidently contribute to my team.

DAY 2: ENGAGEMENT AND DISCUSSION AS A TEAM

Our Entrepreneurial Mind subject made us engaged on different things for the last two weeks. Our first interaction as a group was a discussion of our hobbies and the current problems we encountered as a college student. Thus, we come up with three problems and specifically they are:

The methods of collection of garbage inside the campus.

 The students who might need protection when they’re going home at night.

 The students who skip their breakfast for their 7AM class.

We actually ended up agreeing on the third option since we also shared the same problem of somehow skipping our breakfast for our 5 days, 7AM classes. That’s when we come up with our partial proposal of KamungGo. Subsequently, I did an onlineinterview to some strangers and people I know inside the campus if somehow, they agree with the idea of proposal and if they’re also experiencing the said problem. Fortunately, most of them answer our interview with honesty and the pictures below was the evidence of their response and feedback. Lastly, we defended our proposal days later our entrepreneurial class.

DAY 3 and DAY 4: INTERACTION TO STRANGERS

Aside from letting us do a proposal from our subject, we are also challenged of interacting random strangers inside the campus, the so-called “The Social Experiment” or “The Rejection Therapy Activity”. We were tasked to ask them a question that’s answerable by no. And I can’t deny that it caused me anxiety on my first try because it would be my first attempt of having a random conversation of stranger and not because I know I’m going to be rejected of my question and favor. It took me a day to finally recover from the embarrassment and somehow made me more confident the next day. My ability to endure and cope up with different situation made me thank my 19-year-old self for building up my coping up skills. Despite of the slightly hatred on the subject from the beginning of my engagement on a stranger made me also appreciate the result it help me to go out my comfort zone. In fact, the day I was coping up from the embarrassment was also the day I did practice my way of conversation and did a little bit of research on proper words to approach a stranger by convincing them. In addition, it made me appreciate some entrepreneurs, saleslady, businessmen/businesswomen, and etc. because it’s really hard interacting or convincing strangers or people.

WEEK TWO

Last September 4, 2019 we attended a business literacy seminar called “Transforming Mindset towards Business Innovation” it was all about how businesses work.

Business as we all know is all about risk taking. To be successful you need to be open for changes, failures and opportunities. We have heard different stories from successful entrepreneurs, that in order for you to be successful you need to love everything that you do including your business.

Another thing that I have learned while listening to their stories is that you need to keep thinking on what is the next thing to improve in your business, do not settle for less because in the long run your business will fail if you do. Creativity also plays a vital role in running a business since people nowadays kept looking for more, something that is new to them.

During our class, in connection with what happened in our business literacy seminar our instructor gave us some ideas to help us improve our business idea in the future. She said we need to validate our ideas to see if other people are experiencing it too or not, or if it can solve our problem or not.