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

by Scott Adams

Success caused passion more than passion caused success.

your job is not your job; your job is to find a better job.

If you achieve your goal, you celebrate and feel terrific, but only until you realize you just lost the thing that gave you purpose and direction. Your options are to feel empty and useless, perhaps enjoying the spoils of your success until they bore you, or set new goals and reenter the cycle of permanent presuccess failure.

If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. It sounds trivial and obvious,

We fake it until it becomes real.

Another huge advantage of learning as much as you can in different fields is that the more concepts you understand, the easier it is to learn new ones.

Everything you learn becomes a shortcut for understanding something else.

The point of conversation is to make the other person feel good.

But I did make it easier for luck to find me,

I’m here to tell you that the primary culprit in your bad moods is a deficit in one of the big five: flexible schedule, imagination, sleep, diet, and exercise.

But exercise is also a mental escape from whatever was stressing you before you laced your athletic shoes.

Focus on your diet first and get that right so you have enough energy to want to exercise. Exercise will further improve your energy, and that in turn will make you more productive, more creative, more positive, more socially desirable, and more able to handle life’s little bumps.

your own happiness will depend on being good to others.