How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
About this eBook
The bestselling classic that made Systems Over Goals, Talent Stacking, and Passion Is Overrated universal success advice has been reborn.
Once in a generation, a book revolutionizes its category and becomes the preeminent reference that all subsequent books on the topic must pay homage to, in name or in spirit.
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, is such a book for the field of personal success.
A contrarian pundit and persuasion expert in a class of his own, Adams has reached hundreds of millions directly and indirectly through the 2013 first edition’s straightforward yet counterintuitive advice—to invite failure in, embrace it, then pick its pocket.
The second edition of How to Fail is a tighter, updated version, by popular demand. Yet new and returning readers alike will find the same candor, humor, and timeless wisdom on productivity, career growth, health and fitness, and entrepreneurial success as the original classic.
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Second Edition is the essential read (or re-read) for anyone who wants to find a unique path to personal victory—and make luck find you in whatever you do.
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About the author
Scott Adams is best known as the creator of the Dilbert comic strip that ran in newspapers and later on websites around the world from 1989 until 2023. In recent years, Adams is better known as the author of the most influential book in the field of personal success—How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big.
Adams is a trained hypnotist and the host of Coffee with Scott Adams, a daily livestream analyzing news events and politics through a persuasion lens. The show is available at 10:00 AM Eastern every day on YouTube and scottadams.locals.com (for subscribers) live. Recorded episodes are also on Rumble and on most podcast apps.
Joshua Lisec is a globally acclaimed celebrity ghostwriter and #1 international bestselling author of So Good They Call You a Fake. He has written more than 80 books for CEOs, entrepreneurs, and household names, along with several novels of his own. Lisec can be found at LisecGhostwriting.com and on X (formerly Twitter) @JoshuaLisec.
