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Group Name and Members:
Motivation and Perseverance Afternoon Session
Introduction: Some people are born wealthy in terms of the circumstances of life, while others are born with less. The important thing is not how you start, but how you continue. Today’s activity is about what stops us and what keeps us going.
Steps:
1. Select an Entrepreneur: You can start with choosing individually one of the entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Melanie Perkins or someone else whose achievements are recognised all over the world today. Then as a group decide one name. (*suggested time:5 min)
Proposed Entrepreneur Who Proposed?
Name of entrepreneur The group member who proposed
Group Decison for the Entrepreneur:
2. Individual Research: Once the common entrepreneur has been agreed upon, everyone in the group makes their own research about the chosen entrepreneur. Please pay special attention to their failures more than their success. (*st :20 min)
3. Group Work: As a group, list 5 difficulties/failures experienced by the selected entrepreneur. If you cannot find 5 in total, you can complete the list with challenges/failures that cause entrepreneurs to give up in general. (*st :15 min)
No. Challanges/Failures
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4. Generating solutions: Now it is your turn. If it were you, how would you produce alternative solutions to these problems. Or would you give up?(*st :20 min)
No. Your solutions
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5. Presenting Your Findings
Please prepare a presentation in a digital format to explain the challanges/failures and the soutions that you come up with. (*st :25 min)
