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

By: Scott Adams

Published October 22nd 2013 by Penguin Portfolio (first published October 1st 2013)

Category: Business

Pages: 248 pages

ISBN: 9781591846918

Description:
Scott Adams has likely failed at more things than anyone youÕve ever met or anyone youÕve even heard of. So how did he go from hapless office worker and serial failure to the creator of Dilbert, one of the worldÕs 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, to embrace it, then pick its pocket.

No career guide can offer advice for success 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 what he learned for turning one failure after another into something good and lasting. Adams reveals that he failed at just about everything heÕs tried, including his corporate career, his inventions, his investments, and his two restaurants. But thereÕs a lot to learn from his personal story, and a lot of humor along the way. While itÕs hard for anyone to recover from a personal or professional failure, 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.