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 ...
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, 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 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. While it’s 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.
作者简介
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Adams was born in Windham, New York in 1957 and received his Bachelor's degree in Economics from Hartwick College in 1979.
He also studied economics and management for his 1986 MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Systems vs Goals “Goals are for losers” he writes. In order to explain his systems vs goals theory, I’ve written down a few examples. Putting on Muscle: Goal: I want to put on 20lbs of muscle System: I will follow the xxx training program. I will eat...
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" He said that every time he got a new job, he immediatel started looking for a better one. For him, job seeking was not something one did when necessary. It was an ongoing process. This makes perfect sense if you do the math. Chances are the best job for you won't become available at precisely the time you declare yourself ready. Your best bet, he explained, was to always be looking for the be...(1回应)
The secret to our initial success was the low number of restaurants in the area relative to the population. Every restaurant in the area was busy regardless of quality or price
Happiness A person with a flexible schedule and average resources will be happier than a rich person WHO has everything except a flexible schedule. Step one in your search for happiness is to continually work toward having control of your schedule. You need to control the order and timing of things to be happy and timing is easier to control than resources. Happiness has more to do with where y...
The secret to our initial success was the low number of restaurants in the area relative to the population. Every restaurant in the area was busy regardless of quality or price
Happiness A person with a flexible schedule and average resources will be happier than a rich person WHO has everything except a flexible schedule. Step one in your search for happiness is to continually work toward having control of your schedule. You need to control the order and timing of things to be happy and timing is easier to control than resources. Happiness has more to do with where y...
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Happiness A person with a flexible schedule and average resources will be happier than a rich person WHO has everything except a flexible schedule. Step one in your search for happiness is to continually work toward having control of your schedule. You need to control the order and timing of things to be happy and timing is easier to control than resources. Happiness has more to do with where y...
1 有用 爱幻想的小孩 2018-01-21 21:10:46
虽说道理貌似听上去都挺简单的，但是我觉得醍醐灌顶！可能是最近的境遇正好和他的意见在一个频道上吧
2 有用 shansquare 2020-01-13 14:11:11
一个有点cheesy的book title，但内容对普通人来说超实用，教你变成一个从工程角度上来说更健康更自律也更加容易被幸运光顾的人。不愧是漫画家啊，文风超幽默，人生一次次被打趴下来，却还能让你笑着读完。
0 有用 Terence Xie 2021-10-21 06:48:30
很难说这本书的所有内容都很扎实，但有一些 insight idea 确实是妙到毫巅，如果不是太缺乏时间的话，可以快速阅读一番淘出其中的金子。
16 有用 未时 2018-03-04 13:48:58
作者教你树立科学鸡血观 - 意志力是有限的，不要硬刚要巧取 // 脸皮要厚，自信靠绷 // 善待他人，善于交流 // 把自己当成可以program的机器，不用弃疗 // 总之，尽人事听天命。
2 有用 启明君 2018-03-28 00:44:26
答案就是他实在是尝试过太多的事了，超凡的努力招致了超凡的运气。方法论是基于争议不断的 ego depletion effect，用系统的思路做精力管理。