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How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big
Scott Adams
Kind of the Story of My Life
Portfolio
November 2013
On Sale: October 22, 2013
256 pages ISBN: 1591846919 EAN: 9781591846918 Kindle: B00COOFBA4 Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Everything you want out of life is in that bubbling vat
of failure. The trick is to get the good stuff out. 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 strategy he has used since he was a teen to
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 into something good and lasting. Adams reveals that he’s failed at just about everything he’s
tried, including his corporate career, his inventions, his
investments, and his two restaurants. But there’s a lot to
learn from his personal story, and a lot of humor 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.”
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