How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams

Blasting clich 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 you've ever met or anyone you've even heard of. So how did he go from hapless office worker and serial failure to the creator of Dilbert, one of the world's most famous syndicated comic strips, in just a few years? In How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Adams shares the game plan he'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 another--including his corporate career, his inventions, his investments, and his two restaurants--into something good and lasting. There'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:

- Goals are for losers. Systems are for winners.
- Passion is bull. What you need is personal energy.
- A combination of mediocre skills can make you surprisingly valuable.
- 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: This is a story of one person'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.

Dilbert (www.dilbert.com) was created by Scott Adams and can be found in over 2,000 newspapers in 65 countries. Scott has published twenty-nine books, with over eleven million copies in print, including two New York Times best-sellers. Scott Adams Foods, Inc. is his company. Stacey's Cafe in Pleasanton, California, and Stacey's at Waterford are her two eateries. Northern California is home to the author, cartoonist, engineer, artist, restaurant, actor, hypnotist, and entrepreneur.

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ISBN 13	9781591847748
ISBN 10	1591847745
Title	How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Author	Scott Adams
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2014-12-30
Number of pages	256
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