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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big : Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams (2014, Trade Paperback)

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Blasting clichéd 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."

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1591847745
ISBN-13
9781591847748
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big : Kind of the Story of My Life
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
Techniques / Cartooning, Careers / General, Personal Success, Topic / Business & Professional, Motivational, Motivational & Inspirational, Business
Genre
Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Art, Business & Economics, Humor
Author
Scott Adams
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Trade Paperback

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0.7 in
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Item Length
8.4 in
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23
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"Adams has a funny, refreshingly considered set of ideas about how to find success-and what that success will look like when one gets there." - Kirkus Reviews "Scott Adams has drawn nearly 9,000 Dilbert cartoons since the strip began, in 1989, and his cynical take on management ideas, the effectiveness of bosses, and cubicle life has affected the worldview of millions. But he built his successful career mainly through trial and error-a whole lot of error, to be exact. - Harvard Business Review
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
650.1092

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