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How to Fail at Almost
Everything and Still Win
Big
By Scott Adams
Book Review by Shailen Mistry
Three Key Take Aways
 Systems
 Energy
 Improving Your Odds for Success
Systems
 Create systems for yourself
 Apply a system
 Example 1: Fitness
 Example 2: Investing
Energy
 Maximize personal energy
 easier to manage all other priorities
 Sleep
 Diet
 Exercise
Improving Your Odds for
Success
 +1 Skill = Double Odds
 Public Speaking
 Psychology
 Business writing
 Accounting
 Design
 Conversation
 Overcoming shyness
 Sales
 Second language
 Proper grammar
 Persuasion
 Technology
More Topics Covered
 Deciding vs. Wanting
 Managing Your Attitude
 Practice
 Humor
 Believing
 Happiness factor
Thank You
• Images from search.dilbert.com. Thanks to Scott Adams.

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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big Book Review

  • 1. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big By Scott Adams Book Review by Shailen Mistry
  • 2.
  • 3. Three Key Take Aways  Systems  Energy  Improving Your Odds for Success
  • 4.
  • 5. Systems  Create systems for yourself  Apply a system  Example 1: Fitness  Example 2: Investing
  • 6.
  • 7. Energy  Maximize personal energy  easier to manage all other priorities  Sleep  Diet  Exercise
  • 8.
  • 9. Improving Your Odds for Success  +1 Skill = Double Odds  Public Speaking  Psychology  Business writing  Accounting  Design  Conversation  Overcoming shyness  Sales  Second language  Proper grammar  Persuasion  Technology
  • 10. More Topics Covered  Deciding vs. Wanting  Managing Your Attitude  Practice  Humor  Believing  Happiness factor
  • 11. Thank You • Images from search.dilbert.com. Thanks to Scott Adams.

Editor's Notes

  1. The book is an easy read. 231 pages Scott Adams is most famous for being the creator of the comic strip and cartoon – Dilbert It talks a lot about failures and how you can learn from every failure you have in life. He goes on for two chapters outlining all his work failures, business failures, and personal failures. Then it goes on to talk about successes…
  2. Because he is a cartoonist and if you know the sarcasm of Dilbert, it is a fun book to read --- and it has many good points. During the next few minutes of this Lightning Talk, I’ll go over the top 3 take-aways from the book.
  3. Joke on goals and failing
  4. Apply systems to to your work, fitness, diet, schedule, and more Fitness – rather saying you will work out 3x a week, instead create a system of being active and apply it every day Investing – rather than aiming to make $X in a week, month, or year – create a system to buy long term growth stocks, high dividend companies, or undervalued companies
  5. The next topic is “energy”
  6. We want many different things at the same time – health, financial freedom, love, travel, family, career, fame, food, and more. Chasing after any one of these means you are not doing the others How do you organize your limited supply of time? Focus on one metric – energy. Make choices that maximize your personal energy because it makes it easier to manage all of the other priorities
  7. The next topic is “energy”
  8. Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success Often being an expert in any one field will only get you so far It is good to get a working knowledge in as multiple of the following topics