- What are the connections between the disciplines addressing entrepreneurship at ODU?
At ODU, students are encouraged to explore information from all disciplines in order to achieve their entrepreneurial goals. There is a group of faculty members throughout the various disciplines who are dedicated to encouraging an interdisciplinary entrepreneurship ecosystem throughout ODU. People are notoriously more successful when they share knowledge and insights in order to solve a particular problem. For instance, I am exploring information across education disciplines and technology disciplines to understand the best way to give the most useful information possible in this cybersecurity curriculum we want to create. Knowledge is power!
2. Is entrepreneurship an art or science?
Entrepreneurship can be both an art and a science or it can be one or the other. I think that entrepreneurship is anything that you want it to be. Every success story is different, even student entrepreneurs at ODU have different approaches to their businesses. For example, If a business is focused on conducting research or experiments to solve a societal issue, this group of entrepreneurs might be more focused on the science portion of information. This example is broad, but so is entrepreneurship because it can be anything you want it to be.
3. How is failure good?
Failure can be good because it creates an opportunity for learning and growing. While this can be beneficial in the long run, the feeling of failing is never good. However, failing can lead to succeeding in ways that were not thought possible before. From an entrepreneurial perspective, failing can help businesses lead to success in the long run. Failing is a natural part of everyone’s life and should be considered as just another chance to learn, grow, and eventually succeed. There is a cliché saying, “fall 100 times, get up 101 times.”. Everyone loves to talk about the ventures of successful people and what they did to be where they are now but, more times than not, these success stories are the final chapter to a hundred-chapter book full of the times they failed and learned how to go about their goals in a different way to make them successful.
4. What have I learned from failing?
In my young adult life, I feel like I have learned so much from failing. At one point in time, I failed at something in every part of my life. I have failed classes, failed to perform while playing my sport, failed in reacting appropriately in social situations, and so on. With all of the failures, I have always learned something from them. From failing, the most important lesson I have learned so far is that I am capable of picking myself up and trying again. I have also learned that in order to accomplish some of my goals, I will fail again because I have a lot more to learn. However, I have learned to take failure as a negative experience and turn it into a positive overall outcome.
5. What ethical issues might arise related to what I am working on?
While creating this cybersecurity curriculum some ethical issues that might arise could be that parents or teachers disagree with the information in the curriculum. They could assume that this information might lead to inappropriate use of technology at school making kids curious as to what they can do with technology. Another ethical issue could be from a parent who is against their child using any form of technology without their supervision. These parents might have an issue with their children being in these technology-based courses. However, I feel like these ethical issues could be easily addressed by informing parents of what information will be covered and if they choose to dis-enroll their child from the class, this is their right.