How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big Quotes

“A lie that makes a voter feel good is more effective than a hundred rational arguments.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“fitness and daily exercise are correlated with success in business and in life.3”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“Realistically, the last advice you want to hear when you are in a terrible mood is"Think of something happy." If you're experiencing genuine misfortune, you probably just need time and distance to recover.
For the truly bad moods, exercise, nutrition, sleep,and time are the smart buttons to push. Once you get back to your baseline level of happiness, you'll be in a better position to get the benefits of daydreaming.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“making a million dollars is a goal, but being a serial entrepreneur is a system.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“No one wants to believe that the formula for happiness is as simple as daydreaming, controlling your schedule, napping, eating right, and being active every day.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“Just remember to keep your eye out for ways to maximize your schedule freedom in the long term.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“This was about the time that my opinion of experts, and authority figures in general, began a steady descent that continues to this day.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“Persistence is useful, but there’s no point in being an idiot about it.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“For example, if every time you eat popcorn, one hour later you fart so hard that it inflates your socks, you can reasonably assume popcorn makes you gassy.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“Sitting Position Your brain takes some of its cues from what your body is doing. My experience is that when I sit in a position I associate with relaxation, such as slumping on the couch, my brain will start the lazy relaxation subroutine. But if I sit with good posture, both feet on the floor, it seems that my body signals to my brain that it’s time to concentrate on work.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

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

“Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous pre-success failure at best and permanent failure at worst, if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems in the sense that they did what they intended to do. The “goals” people are fighting the feeling of discouragement at each turn. The systems people feel good every time they apply their system. That’s a big difference in terms of maintaining your personal energy in the right direction.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“El éxito construye la confianza, y ésta suprime la timidez. Si usted no puede controlar directamente su timidez por medio de los consejos que le he dado, espere a ser rico y famoso; es posible que entonces la timidez se largue sola.”
― Scott Adams, Cómo fracasar en casi todo y aun así triunfar: Algo así como la historia de mi vida (Gestion Del Conocimiento)

“No leo las noticias para encontrar la verdad, porque eso sería una pérdida de tiempo estúpida. Leo las noticias para ampliar mi exposición a temas y patrones nuevos que hacen que mi cerebro sea más eficiente en general, y para disfrutar, porque aprender cosas interesantes aumenta mi energía y me hace sentir optimista. No piense que las noticias son información. Piense en ellas como una fuente de energía.”
― Scott Adams, Cómo fracasar en casi todo y aun así triunfar: Algo así como la historia de mi vida (Gestion Del Conocimiento)

“Si usted alcanza su meta, lo celebra y se siente genial, pero sólo hasta que se da cuenta de que ha perdido aquello que le daba propósito y dirección. Sus opciones son: sentirse vacío e inútil, quizá disfrutar de las mieles de su éxito hasta que le aburran, o fijarse nuevas metas y volver a entrar en el ciclo de fracaso permanente anterior al éxito.”
― Scott Adams, Cómo fracasar en casi todo y aun así triunfar: Algo así como la historia de mi vida (Gestion Del Conocimiento)

“El hombre de negocios, ¿le debe lealtad a su jefe actual? Según él, no. El hombre de negocios no inventó el capitalismo ni tampoco sus normas. Sencillamente las acataba. Sus empresas no habrían vacilado en despedirle en el acto por cualquier motivo que encajase con sus necesidades laborales. Él no hacía más que seguir su ejemplo.”
― Scott Adams, Cómo fracasar en casi todo y aun así triunfar: Algo así como la historia de mi vida (Gestion Del Conocimiento)

“Ésta fue la primera vez que entré en contacto con la idea de que uno debe tener un sistema en vez de una meta. El sistema consistía en no dejar nunca de buscar mejores opciones.”
― Scott Adams, Cómo fracasar en casi todo y aun así triunfar: Algo así como la historia de mi vida (Gestion Del Conocimiento)

“Pero esa experiencia me enseñó una lección valiosa: las buenas ideas no tienen valor, porque el mundo ya tiene demasiadas. El mercado recompensa la ejecución, no las ideas. A partir de ese momento me concentré en las ideas que pudiera llevar a cabo. Ya estaba fracasando en dirección al éxito, aunque aún no lo supiera.”
― Scott Adams, Cómo fracasar en casi todo y aun así triunfar: Algo así como la historia de mi vida (Gestion Del Conocimiento)

“Yo soy optimista por naturaleza, o quizá por la educación que recibí (cuesta saber dónde acaba la una y empieza la otra), pero sea cual sea la causa, hace mucho tiempo que considero que el fracaso es un instrumento, no un resultado. Creo que a usted también puede beneficiarle contemplar el mundo desde esta perspectiva.”
― Scott Adams, Cómo fracasar en casi todo y aun así triunfar: Algo así como la historia de mi vida (Gestion Del Conocimiento)

“El fracaso siempre me aporta algo valioso. No lo dejo en paz hasta que extraigo ese valor. Llevo muchísimo tiempo aprovechándome de los fracasos.”
― Scott Adams, Cómo fracasar en casi todo y aun así triunfar: Algo así como la historia de mi vida (Gestion Del Conocimiento)

“estamos diseñados para ser en la realidad quienes aparentamos ser.”
― Scott Adams, Cómo fracasar en casi todo y aun así triunfar: Algo así como la historia de mi vida (Gestion Del Conocimiento)

“I believe exercise makes people smarter, psychologically braver, more creative, more energetic, and more influential. In an online article about twenty habits of successful people, the second item on the list is exercise five to seven days a week. Other studies back this notion–physical fitness and daily exercise are correlated with success in business and in life.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“Asshole behaviors: Changing the subject to him/herself Dominating conversation Bragging Cheating, lying Disagreeing with any suggestion, no matter how trivial Using honesty as a justification for cruelty Withholding simple favors out of some warped sense of social justice Abandoning the rules of civil behavior, such as saying hello or making eye contact”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“My hypothesis is that passionate people are more likely to take big risks in the pursuit of unlikely goals, and so you would expect to see more failures and more huge successes among the passionate. Passionate people who fail don’t get a chance to offer their advice to the rest of us. But successful passionate people are writing books and answering interview questions about their secrets for success every day. Naturally those successful people want you to believe that success is a product of their awesomeness, but they also want to retain some humility. You can’t be humble and say, “I succeeded because I am far smarter than the average person.” But you can say your passion was a key to your success, because everyone can be passionate about something or other. Passion sounds more accessible. If you’re dumb, there’s not much you can do about it, but passion is something we think anyone can generate in the right circumstances. Passion feels very democratic. It is the people’s talent, available to all.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“Recapping the happiness formula: Eat right. Exercise. Get enough sleep. Imagine an incredible future (even if you don’t believe it). Work toward a flexible schedule. Do things you can steadily improve at. Help others (if you’ve already helped yourself). Reduce daily decisions to routine. If you do those eight things, the rest of what you need to stimulate the chemistry of happiness in your brain will be a lot easier to find. In fact, the other components of happiness that you seek—such as career opportunities, love, and friends—might find their way to you if you make yourself an attractive target. Chapter Thirty-one Diet This is a good time to remind you that nothing in this book should be seen as advice.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“about perceptions is that you shouldn’t hesitate to modify your perceptions to whatever makes you happy, because you’re probably wrong about the underlying nature of reality anyway.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“great strategy for success in life is to become good at something, anything, and let that feeling propel you to new and better victories. Success can be habit-forming. Pick the Delusion That Works When my dog, Snickers, wants to play fetch in the backyard, she follows me around and stares into my eyes with freakish intensity, as if using her Jedi doggy powers on me.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“Smiling makes you feel better even”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“to letting the environment dictate how you feel on any given day, it would be like a minor superpower.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“For example, if your boss asks you to work the weekend to finish something worthwhile and challenging, you might be willing to give up a little of your personal life and health. Meaningful work can be energizing. And if things work out, perhaps you will be promoted because of your efforts. That's a trade-off that might charge you up in both the short run and the long run.
On the other hand, if your boss routinely asks you to work overtime for no good reason other than to claw through piles of brain-deadening administrative work, you probably need to look for a new job.
In both examples your boss is asking for extra work at the cost of your higher priorities, but only one of those situations increases your energy.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life