How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

Blasting clichÃ©d career advice, the contrarian pundit and creator of Dilbert recounts the humorous ups and downs of his career, revealing the outsized role of luck in our lives and how best to play the system.

Scott Adams has likely failed at more things than anyone youâ€™ve ever met or anyone youâ€™ve even heard of. So how did he go from hapless office worker and serial failure to the creator ofÂ Dilbert, one of the worldâ€™s most famous syndicated comic strips, in just a few years? InÂ How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Adams shares the game plan heâ€™s followed since he was a teen: invite failure in, embrace it, then pick its pocket.

No career guide can offer advice that works for everyone. As Adams explains, your best bet is to study the ways of others who made it big and try to glean some tricks and strategies that make sense for you. Adams pulls back the covers on his own unusual life and shares how he turned one failure after anotherâ€”including his corporate career, his inventions, his investments, and his two restaurantsâ€”into something goodÂ and lasting. Thereâ€™s a lot to learn from his personal story, and a lot of entertainment along the way. Adams discovered some unlikely truths that helped to propel him forward. For instance:

â€¢ Goals are for losers. Systems are for winners.
â€¢ â€œPassionâ€ is bull. What you need is personal energy.
â€¢ A combination of mediocre skills can make you surprisingly valuable.
â€¢ You can manage your odds in a way that makes you look lucky to others.

Adams hopes you can laugh at his failures while discovering some unique and helpful ideas on your own path to personal victory. As he writes: â€œThis is a story of one personâ€™s unlikely success within the context of scores of embarrassing failures. Was my eventual success primarily a result of talent, luck, hard work, or an accidental just-right balance of each? All I know for sure is that I pursued a conscious strategy of managing my opportunities in a way that would make it easier for luck to find me.â€
Country USA
Manufacturer Portfolio
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-10-22
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Portfolio
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-10-22
Format	Kindle eBook

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

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