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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life | Scott Adams
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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, including his corporate career, his inventions, his investments, and two restaurants. So how did he go from hapless office worker to the creator of Dilbert, one of the world’s most famous syndicated comic strips, in just a few years? In this funny yet serious book full of personal stories, Adams shares the strategies he has used to invite failure in, embrace it, then pick its pocket. Among his contrarian lessons: • Goals are for losers. Systems are for winners. • 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.
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DcSunshine
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This book deserves a reread every few years because it boils down ideas and concepts into their simplest forms. I couldn‘t help but see how I had been accidentally doing much of what Adams says, but without realizing it. Putting these tips into consciousness practice helps invigorate (or reinvigorate) the mind about work.

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keithmalek

In hindsight, it looks as if the projects I was most passionate about were also the ones that worked. But objectively, my passion level moved with my success. Success caused passion more than passion caused success.

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jesterf
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"It turns out that a shy person can act like someone else more easily than he can act like himself. That makes some sense because shyness is caused by an internal feeling that you are not worthy to be in the conversation. Acting like someone else gets you out of that way of thinking."

Full of unassuming wisdom that really strikes a chord and makes a lot of sense to me. He writes in a simple straightforward manner with wit and humor.