How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big Quotes

“El sentido común. (Una buena manera de equivocarse con total confianza.) 6. La detección de patrones. (Los patrones, las coincidencias y los prejuicios personales se parecen.)”
― Scott Adams, Cómo fracasar en casi todo y aun así triunfar: Algo así como la historia de mi vida (Gestion Del Conocimiento)

“La experiencia personal. (La percepción humana no es digna de confianza.) 2. La experiencia de sus conocidos. (Menos fiable, si cabe.) 3. Los expertos. (Trabajan por dinero, no para descubrir la verdad.) 4. Los estudios científicos. (Correlación ≠ causación.) 5.”
― Scott Adams, Cómo fracasar en casi todo y aun así triunfar: Algo así como la historia de mi vida (Gestion Del Conocimiento)

“y lo interesante es que todas y cada una de ellas son un auténtico desastre.”
― Scott Adams, Cómo fracasar en casi todo y aun así triunfar: Algo así como la historia de mi vida (Gestion Del Conocimiento)

“El sistema reconoce que existen al menos seis maneras frecuentes de distinguir entre verdad y fantasía,”
― Scott Adams, Cómo fracasar en casi todo y aun así triunfar: Algo así como la historia de mi vida (Gestion Del Conocimiento)

“I have cultivated a unique relationship with failure. I invite it. I survive it. I appreciate it. And then I mug the shit out of it.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“You already know that when your energy is right you perform better at everything you do, including school, work, sports, and even your personal life. Energy is good. Passion is bullshit”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“One of the best ways to detect the x factor is to watch what customers do about your idea or product, not what they say. People tend to say what they think you want to hear or what they think will cause the least pain. What people do is far more honest.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“What you’re looking for is an unusually strong reaction from a subset of the public, even if the majority hates it. The Dilbert pilot got an okay response from the test audience, but no one seemed enthusiastic. The project went no further.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“When you apply the formula to your résumé, you surprise yourself by how well the formula helps you prune your writing to its most essential form. It doesn’t matter that the hundred-dollar figure is arbitrary and that some words you remove are more valuable than others. What matters is that the formula steers your behavior in the right direction. As is often the case, simplicity trumps accuracy. The hundred dollars in this case is not only inaccurate; it’s entirely imaginary. And it still works.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“To be fair to Nietzsche, he probably meant the word 'stronger' to include anything that makes you more capable. I’d ask him to clarify, but ironically he ran out of things that didn't kill him.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“Humans will always think in terms of goals. Our brains are wired that way. But goals make sense only if you also have a system that moves you in the right direction.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“Simplification is often the difference between doing something you know you should do and putting it off.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“If you go to movies, choose the funny ones first and avoid anything you know will end on a sad note.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“My failure taught me to seek opportunities in which I had an advantage.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“Quality is not an independent force in the universe; it depends on what you choose as your frame of reference.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“Overcoming obstacles is normally an unavoidable part of the process. But you also need to know when to quit. 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

“My optimism is like an old cat that likes to disappear for days, but I always expect it to return.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“Insanity is always a reasonable diagnosis when you're dealing with writers and artists”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“Most people aren’t lucky enough to have a flexible schedule. I didn’t have one either for the first sixteen years of my corporate life. So I did the next best thing by going to bed early and getting up at 4:00 A.M. to do my creative side projects. One of those projects became the sketches for Dilbert. You might not think you’re an early-morning person. I didn’t think I was either. But once you get used to it, you might never want to go back. You can accomplish more by the time other people wake up than most people accomplish all day.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“This brings me to my system. I still have the diary I wrote when I graduated from Hartwick, in which I outlined my entrepreneurial plan. The idea was to create something that had value and—this next part is the key—I wanted the product to be something that was easy to reproduce in unlimited quantities. I didn’t want to sell my time, at least not directly, because that model has an upward limit. And I didn’t want to build my own automobile factory, for example, because cars are not easy to reproduce. I didn’t want to do any sort of custom work, such as building homes, because each one requires the same amount of work. I wanted to create, invent, write, or otherwise concoct something widely desired that would be easy to reproduce.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever heard goes something like this: If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“Of the big five factors in happiness—flexible schedule, imagination, diet, exercise, and sleep—my pick for the most important is exercise.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“You probably think the majority of your crabbiness is caused by the idiots and sociopaths in your life plus your inexplicable bad luck on any given day. Based on a lifetime of observation, my best estimate is that 80 percent of your mood is based on how your body feels and only 20 percent is based on your genes and your circumstances, particularly your health.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“It’s tempting to imagine happiness as a state of mind caused by whatever is happening in your life. By that way of thinking, we’re largely victims of the cold, cold world that sometimes rewards our good work and sometimes punishes us for no reason. That’s a helpless worldview and it can blind you to a simple system for being happier. Science has done a good job in recent years of demonstrating that happiness isn’t as dependent on your circumstances as you might think. For example, amputees often return to whatever level of happiness they enjoyed before losing a limb. And you know from your own experience that some people seem to be happy no matter what is going on in their lives, while others can’t find happiness no matter how many things are going right. We’re all born with a limited range of happiness, and the circumstances of life can only jiggle us around within the range. The good news is that anyone who has experienced happiness probably has the capacity to spend more time at the top of his or her personal range and less time near the bottom.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“When it comes to skills, quantity often beats quality.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“Things that will someday work out well start out well. Things that will never work start out bad and stay that way.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“Generous people take care of their own needs first. In fact, doing so is a moral necessity. The world needs you at your best.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“I blame society for the sad state of adult fitness in the Western world. We’re raised to believe that giving of ourselves is noble and good. If you’re religious, you might have twice as much pressure to be unselfish. All our lives we are told it’s better to give than to receive. We’re programmed for unselfish behavior by society, our parents, and even our genes to some extent. The problem is that our obsession with generosity causes people to think in the short term. We skip exercise to spend an extra hour helping at home. We buy fast food to save time to help a coworker with a problem. At every turn, we cheat our own future to appear generous today. So how can you make the right long-term choices for yourself, thus being a benefit to others in the long run, without looking like a selfish turd in your daily choices? There’s no instant cure, but a step in the right direction involves the power of permission. I’m giving you permission to take care of yourself first, so you can do a better job of being generous in the long run.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“The most important form of selfishness involves spending time on your fitness, eating right, pursuing your career, and still spending quality time with your family and friends. If you neglect your health or your career, you slip into the second category—stupid—which is a short slide to becoming a burden on society.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“I don’t trust the science behind the vegetarian movement because the believers have agendas beyond nutrition. Some vegetarians are in the lifestyle to protect animals, some want to address climate change, and all are partially blinded by the cognitive dissonance that comes automatically with any lifestyle choice. Complicating”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life