Lesson 9, 30/3/17

          This lesson is a bit different from the previous lessons as it is being held at the Nanyang Technopreneurship Centre and it is our first CID trip out of school, conducted by external speaker. At first, I dreaded to go to the course and would prefer to stay in school to continue learning about Python, but after hearing that the course cost nearly $2000 per lesson, I have decided to go there with an open-mind to see what i can learn from the course. Our course speaker is Mr Roderick Chia. He is a serial entrepreneur and is a 6 time Tan Kah Kee Young Inventor's award winner. However, he say that all these awards do not path his success today and it is actually the failures that help him do so. He learnt it the hard way that not all problems are worth solving. Some of the problems in the market can be easily avoided or there is already another invention that is solving the current problem. The main takeaways I have for this course is that we need to be able to predict the future problems and design something which solves this problem. Hence, when the problem really occurs, we are well ahead of others and that is how we can be successful in life. I was very inspired by this course and my impression of this course have changed ever since.