Reading Reflection No. 3

For Reading Reflection No.3 I decided to read another biography. I choose to read The Wright Brothers by David McCullough. These brothers life stories and invention was quite an invigorating story. The most admiring thing about the Wright Brothers was their fearlessness. These brothers invented something that had never been done to this extent before and the tested it out personally which showed a lot of fearlessness. After reading this biography I could not say there way anything about the bothers that I found to be the least admiring, they were true entrepreneurs of their time. The Wright Brothers most definitely encountered adversity and failure from the start of their childhood when their mother died. Another encounter of adversity was after the plane crash that almost cost Orville his life. The Wright Brothers also faced challenges with the government seeing their invention as value.

The competencies I noticed that the Wright Brothers exhibited was that they were true inventors. They followed their passion of flight from earlier years into their adulthood. They left their hometown to a location in North Carolina that would allow them to pursue their dream of flight due to ideal conditions. They put their life on the line for the success of their invention and they never gave up on themselves.

There really wasn’t any part of the reading that was necessarily confusing to me. I was a little puzzled from that fact that Orville even after his terrible plan crash still never gave up on their invention. This showed me the true grit, hard work, and dedication these brother possessed.

The two questions I would ask the Wright Brothers would be:

1. What do you believe are the necessary personality traits and steps to be a successful inventor?

2. Is there any risk you were unwilling to take for flight and your invention of the plane?

I believe The Wright’s Brothers opinion of hard work was that you have to be willing to take any risk possible to achieve success. I believe this to be true because the Wright Brothers truly did on thinkable things in their time to create flight. They flew across the Atlantic Ocean to France which had never been done before. That trip in itself is a huge risk that the brothers took in their life. I believe that you do have to take risks to achieve success, but I would not be willing to take the type of risk the Wright Brothers took during their flight.