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14A – Halfway Reflection

Tenaciousness is a competency. What are the behaviors that you have used (or developed) to keep up with the requirements of this course?  I developed behaviors like scheduling and planning in order to view the week’s agenda. This way, all deadlines were written down and I could space out assignments or studying throughout the week. Tenaciousness is also about attitude.  Talk about a moment or two when you felt like "giving up." What pulled you through? Do you feel like you've developed a tenacious attitude during the past two months? What experience or experiences most contributed to this? When I had assignments piled up and did not know how I would finish, I felt as if I would not be able to submit any. What pulled me through was knowing I had finished others similar to them, and could do so again. Three tips.  What are three tips you would offer next semester's student about (1) fostering the skills that support tenacity...

13A – Reading Reflection No. 1

What surprised you the most? I was surprised to learn that Coco Chanel “survived a childhood of deprivation and neglect” in “abject poverty” (pg.88). Chanel has become synonymous with elite, luxury, and designer, yet the woman who created it did not always have experience with it. What about the entrepreneur did you most admire? I most admired how, although she “suffered emotional and physical deprivation”, she still became proud and self-sufficient in her iconic brand (pg. 413).Even “under the Desboutins’ watchful eyes” she “set off to live somewhere of her own choosing” (pg. 548). She didn’t allow others to determine what she was able to achieve. What about the entrepreneur did you  least  admire? I least admired her involvement in occupied Paris during the second world war. She lived with spy “Hans Gunther von Dincklage” with “german officer” guests. Did the entrepreneur encounter adversity and failure? If so, what did they do about...