Your reflection/learning's on Technopreneurship 1 (at least 2000 words)
Almost 5 months had passed, the first semester had just ended and I managed to pass the memorable and hand shaking technopreneurship 1, you know what I mean, the series of thousands and thousands of words we need to comply because it was one of the requirements in order to pass the subject. Eventhough that’s the case it was a good and bold strategy that our facilitator had executed on our class. He was able to push us to our limits, the limit of my thinking capacity in which I need to write some thousands of words and create a unique business idea. It was not an easy ride for me because I cannot imagine myself in complying those thousands and thousands of words a while back then. But due to my determination to pass, I managed to comply those memorable brain-draining some sort of content writing stuff. Moreover, I’m thankful to our facilitator for the past semester, it was a memorable semester to me.
And now, we are tasked to write our reflections or learning’s during our past subject which is Technopreneurship I. Here we go. As far as I had remembered, our facilitator gave us a task, he draw a 3 x 3 grid of dots. He asked us to connect the dots without lifting our pen and only in one stroke in a piece of paper. And then we followed. After a while he called us one by one and asked us if we did get to connect the dots. Some of my fellow classmates got to connect it. I managed to connect it but I failed to follow his instructions, I lifted my pen by doing so it wasn’t considered “connected” because I “cheated”. Oh! Before I forgot, our facilitator gave us 3 major rules when inside our class room, first was PhD: our facilitator did not want us to call him “sir” he wanted us to call him by his first name Randy. At first I felt awkward but managed to get along somehow. Second major rule was Time: Randy is very strict when it comes to time. If you came late in his class you will show your talent. Just like in show time, the rest of the class will be the judges and also Randy. He will thumb down to your performance if he feels it is not enough and you’ll be forced to repeat in front!. Last major rule was Fun: Randy wanted his class to be full of fun. As the name suggests. Back to where I left of, after Randy connected the dots himself, he said that our activity was to expose us to think outside the box. To think beyond what has been given, beyond borders, beyond the limits of our imaginations. I learned that from his lecture. Also, I learned from him that the present mind set of parents as well as students that at first go to school, get good grades then land a good job. I admit that was also my mind set back then. But Randy gave me a turning point, he made me change my mind set. He was saying that with the help of technopreneurship, you go to school, get good grades and be the boss. A way different and lucrative mind set. I’ll just need to be creative and unique in building my techobiz someday in the future. And then Randy gave us an assignment to visit food chains and think of ways of improving it by using technology. The next meeting was scheduled for our movie screening inside lab 1, our class room. The title of the movie was “Pirates of the Silicon Valley” not to be confused of with some Disney film. This film was like a docu drama of the 2 software giant’s humble beginnings – Apple and Microsoft. It was somehow related to our subject because the film introduces unique business ideas and how the key people managed to survive to the competition. I learned many things in that film, one of those was that Bill Gates was a clever technopreneur and Steve Jobs trusted Bill Gates which turned Apple vs. Windows battle for supremacy. Also I learned that Steve Jobs was the best technopreneur for me. He has many unique ideas and principles that catapulted him to the top of his career as a technopreneur. I very much liked his saying that “stay hungry, stay foolish”- means that we should not be static, we should continue to be curious and invent new ideas that are essential to the people. Considering the people as your target client in your technobiz someday. After our film viewing, Randy gave us assignments in relation to the movie we previously watched. And I promptly complied. And then the next meeting Randy introduced us the SEED Model in which, our focus in Techno 1. S for self-mastery, E for environment-mastery, E for enterprise-mastery and D for development-mastery. We managed to tackle the self-mastery during the course of the first semester. This self-mastery comprises of a lot of different but relevant test that are essential to one’s self, hence the name self-mastery is all about. The first test was the Personality Traits test. The purpose of the personality test is to assess the match between your personality profile and the required job profile, and thus screen out candidates. It is very likely that as part of your job selection process you will have to face a personality test. While the job interview examines your overt behavior, the personality test aims to reach deeper, and expose those areas you might not be aware of, thereby providing recruiters with a more comprehensive profile of your personality. The information provided by the personality test, coupled with the interview and the other psychometric tests including aptitude tests, helps the evaluator to put the pieces together and get an overall impression of the applicant. Moreover, in our personality traits test, I managed to get a relatively high score, in which translates to a some what technopreneur in Randy’s scale. Im quite amazed by my score because I did not see my self as a technopreneur but somehow I’m relieved. This personality traits test also served us a prelim exam for us. Whew! The next test we took that falls in self-mastery was the AQ test, this time we consult the web and googled for the rest of the test. At first I took the AQ test by mistake because it was for autism! Haha! But I managed to take the other and right AQ test. Whew! Such a waste of time. The AQ test or Adversity Test is one of the several factors enabling you to evaluate the strength of your business - testing how well you might withstand unexpected adversity. The information gained from this test can help you see your business' weakness and to prepare you to gain your banker's support perhaps before you need it. Also this test was to evaluate oneself on how you manage the adversities in life, or should I say, how you turn your failures into success. The next test was the EQ test or the Emotional Quotient test this term was to describe a person's ability to understand his or her own emotions and the emotions of others and to act appropriately based on this understanding, also to reveal your emotional reactions to difficult situations. Since businesses need some personal touch in order to survive, we need also to assess our EQ. It is of great help. And lastly, the IQ, the test everyone knows. The most important criterion in assessing our intelligence is the IQ test. The aim of an IQ test is to measure our intelligence, which supposedly is an indication of our own potential. But where does the test come from and does it really measure potential? Intelligence quotient or IQ, is a score derived from a set of standardized tests that were developed with the purpose of measuring a person's cognitive abilities ("intelligence") in relation to their age group. It is expressed as a number normalized so that the average IQ in an age group is 100 — in other words an individual scoring 115 is above-average when compared to similarly aged people. The PT, AQ, EQ and IQ tests were important for a technopreneur to be evaluated with. We need to evaluate each test in order for us to have a guide or assessment in which we made our decisions that is critical in the business. After taking the entire tests, we still have to dig deeper into our own self, so that we may be able to come up with unique business ideas in this era. The next series of self-mastering skills were to find the things that we love, hate and best at. By doing this, we push through the boundaries of our self and try to discover our hidden talents or abilities that regards to technopreneurship. By knowing the things you love, hate and best at enables you to create or invent something unique to the end user or clients you wish to make business unto. You can pinpoint the strengths and weaknesses of your business and you have the power to patch things up according to your will. For example, you love gadgets and you are best at making that gadget more unique and customized. Considering the example, you will have a bird’s eye view on the situation; you can focus on the strengths and make it more appealing. Also do not forget the things you hate or your irritants, this also serves as a warning so that you can avoid that bad vibes. The final test in self - mastery was to know your role in your home, in school, in the society and in the world. Given the condition that Randy has stripped up all our roles, therefore we must find new roles that matches those criteria’s. By doing this I managed to learn new things about myself, this test paved the way for me to know myself better. The entire test that I took was all important for my well - being and self - mastering. I do hope that I will fully utilize my knowledge in the next technopreneurship subject. I almost forgot, we had one last activity before we say goodbye to our techno 1 subject, the Business Proposal!, anyways, this business proposal was done by a group of 5 students. We chose our members as well as our leader for the group and to be presented during our succeeding classes. We formulated our business proposal basing on our irritants, what we love and best at. By incorporating those 3 factors, we should come up with a unique business proposal. We managed to create one business proposal considering those 3 factors. We were confident that our business idea shall be accepted, but unfortunately it was utterly rejected and we need to create another business proposal again so that we can still present our collected ideas to the class. In the long run, we managed to create one business proposal and thankfully it was accepted. Hurray!
To sum it all, this subject, IT – Elective 1 or Technopreneurship 1 was a fun, memorable, enjoyable subject I had enrolled last semester. Plus, I liked Randy’s facilitation on our class. I eagerly wrote thousands and thousands of words I actually asked myself, is this still IT? It seems like I’m an AB English student. But by doing that, it managed to make me to further use my brain and enhance my thinking capacity and also my writing skills. From time to time I constantly checked his forums for updates and possible assignments. I enjoyed and I learned a lot during the course of this subject.
And now, a new semester has begun and we are back to business, back to where we left of last semester, I’m excited for the new and exciting lessons to discuss and still the thousands of words to write.
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