Traction Journal #5

The JTBD workshop was good. I feel that I don’t learn a lot of new things when we do these workshops though. But it is good practice. It feels repetitive. I wonder if there is a way to teach the upper E levels different things or a more in depth lesson so we don’t get board or burnt out from the same workshops and information. I don’t have any questions I can think of. I think my JTBD for my venture works. But it feels confusing to not be offering a product. I also don’t have a lot of information right now so I had to dig deep to come up with one.

I got a lot of good feedback on interview questions to ask for my VP2. People seemed to think it was a good community to focus on. Got Your Back Consulting was good. I felt like I had some useful information for people, especially the event team. The even quarter is really stressful. Though for some people I didn’t have anything to say because it felt like they knew what they were doing, or I wasn’t very familiar with that topic. I think ugly but tasty is really useful but it felt too soon to have it this early in the quarter. I wish I would have had more time to prepare and get better more useful feedback after I had gotten more information. I had only 5 interviews I was basing everything on so I feel like if it was later by even a week, I’d have had more to present and work with.

VP2 is going well. I like how chill the project is this quarter after the event. I really enjoy working by myself at my own pace and only having to worry about one person. Though I am confused about what exactly I am supposed to be doing. Am I supposed to just be getting as much research done as I can? Or is there a question I am supposed to be trying to answer? If so, I don’t know what that question is. I would love some clarification. Also, I don’t really know if some of the rubric for the evidence pitch applies to the E3s since we don’t have a product to talk about… The evidence pitch feels like it is going to be like rehearsal for the E3s since our whole pitch is evidence anyway. I am interested to see how that will work. I don’t want to present the same evidence twice…

I have not started the change leadership assignment yet. I enjoy doing them. I think they are interesting. But sometimes I don’t understand how it applies to entrepreneurship or why we do them in this class and not a different class like the class “innovating you” or something like that.

This weekend was really fun. I got to hang out with my friends and be weird. It was nice. I think I am getting really burned out from school, I am ready for a long long weekend (summer). The pic below is not a recent photos but it is a photo of my friends.

3 thoughts on “Traction Journal #5

  1. Gabi May 3, 2022 / 6:56 am

    Hey Sophie,
    I could definitely see how the same workshops could get repetitive. I love your honesty. It brings to light some of the flaws that upper E levels experience in this program that lower E levels don’t notice. School burnout can be seriously frustrating & draining. Summer is so so close dude. Keeping chugging along! Almost there! I really enjoyed reading this journal.

  2. mccullj7 May 5, 2022 / 11:55 pm

    Hey Sophie,

    I feel the same way about the repetitive teaching, as an E6 it can be very annoying to do the same lessons over and over again. I agree that working by yourself is much more relaxing, good luck this quarter.

  3. jakanad May 8, 2022 / 5:02 am

    Hi Sophie,

    I agree that a little change up in workshops for higher E levels may keep things interesting and engaging. It’s also a great way to keep learning and growing as an entrepreneur, I’m sure the teaching team would love to connect and here any ideas on how to do that.

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