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

by Scott Adams

If you learn to control your ego, you can pick strategies that scare off the people who fear embarrassment, thus allowing you to compete against a smaller field.

And if you stay in the game long enough, luck has a better chance of finding you.

Avoid career traps such as pursuing jobs that require you to sell your limited supply of time while pre...

Get your health right first, acquire resources and new skills through hard work, and look for an opportunity that gives you a flexible schedule someday.

Some skills are more important than others, and you should acquire as many of those key skills as possible, including public speaking, business writing, a working understanding of the psychology of persuasion, an understanding of basic technology concepts, social skills, proper voice technique, good grammar, and basic accounting.

you get that stuff right—and almost anyone can—you will be hard to stop.

People who seem to have good luck are often the people who have a system that allows luck to find them.

And always remember that failure is your friend. It is the raw material of success. Invite it in. Learn from it. And don’t let it leave until you pick its pocket. That’s a system. The End