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Unconventional Success Advice from a Professional Cartoonist — How to Fail at Almost Anything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams

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About How to Fail at Almost Anything

Written by Scott Adams, creator of the snarky Dilbert comics, How to Fail at Almost Anything and Still Win Big is part how-to book, part litany of failures that turned into success.

Adams celebrates failure as a stepping stone to success, and exposes many ways he failed over the course of his professional life and how all of that failing led to his eventual massive success as a professional cartoonist.

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Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: The Time I was Crazy
• Chapter 2: The Day of the Talk
• Chapter 3: Passion is Bullshit
• Chapter 4: Some of My Many Failures in Summary Form
• Chapter 5: My Absolute Favorite Spectacular Failure
• Chapter 6: Goals Versus Systems
• Chapter 7: My System
• Chapter 8: My Corporate Career Fizzled
• Chapter 9: Deciding Versus Wanting
• Chapter 10: The Selfishness Illusion
• Chapter 11: The Energy Metric
• Chapter 12: Managing Your Attitude
• Chapter 13: It’s Already Working
• Chapter 14: My Pinkie Goes Nuts
• Chapter 15: My Speaking Career
• Chapter 16: My Voice Problem Gets a Name
• Chapter 17: The Voice Solution That Didn’t Work
• Chapter 18: Recognizing Your Talents and Knowing When to Quit
• Chapter 19: Is Practice Your Thing?
• Chapter 20: Managing Your Odds for Success
• Chapter 21: The Math of Success
• Chapter 22: Pattern Recognition
• Chapter 23: Humor
• Chapter 24: Affirmations