How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

Adams was born in Windham, New York in 1957 and received his Bachelor's degree in Economics from Hartwick College in 1979.He also studied economics and management for his 1986 MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

出版者:Portfolio Hardcover

作者:Scott Adams

页数:256

出版时间:2013-10-22

价格:USD 27.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781591846918

图书标签:个人管理思维个人提升英文原著成长方法论励志dilbert

Scott Adams has likely failed at more things than anyone you’ve ever met or anyone you’ve even heard of. So how did he go from hapless office worker and serial failure to the creator of Dilbert, one of the world’s most famous syndicated comic strips, in just a few years? In How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Adams shares the strategy he has used since he was a teen to invite failure in, to embrace it, then pick its pocket.

No career guide can offer advice for success that works for everyone. As Adams explains, your best bet is to study the ways of others who made it big and try to glean some tricks and strategies that make sense for you. Adams pulls back the covers on his own unusual life and shares what he learned for turning one failure after another into something good and lasting. Adams reveals that he failed at just about everything he’s tried, including his corporate career, his inventions, his investments, and his two restaurants. But there’s a lot to learn from his personal story, and a lot of humor along the way. While it’s hard for anyone to recover from a personal or professional failure, Adams discovered some unlikely truths that helped to propel him forward. For instance:

• Goals are for losers. Systems are for winners.

• "Passion" is bull. What you need is personal energy.

• A combination of mediocre skills can make you surprisingly valuable.

• You can manage your odds in a way that makes you look lucky to others.

读后感

Systems vs Goals “Goals are for losers” he writes. In order to explain his systems vs goals theory, I’ve written down a few examples. Putting on Muscle: Goal: I want to put on 20lbs of muscle System: I will follow the xxx training program. I will eat...  

1. focus on your diet first so that you have enough energy to want to exercise 2. exercise will provide more energy, that in term will make you more productive, creative and positive 3. then all you have to do is to increase your luck: 1) learn multiple ski...

1. focus on your diet first so that you have enough energy to want to exercise 2. exercise will provide more energy, that in term will make you more productive, creative and positive 3. then all you have to do is to increase your luck: 1) learn multiple ski...

1. focus on your diet first so that you have enough energy to want to exercise 2. exercise will provide more energy, that in term will make you more productive, creative and positive 3. then all you have to do is to increase your luck: 1) learn multiple ski...

选这本书的原因，Amazon和豆瓣上，都评价很高。可是，读了之后，觉得实在没什么意思。主要的原因，大概还是缺乏深度，讲的东西太简单了，有时又过于啰嗦。同类型里，个人更喜欢Paul Graham的文章 不过书中还是有一些不错的点，拎出来讲讲 1. 个人的失败历史和成长经历 尽管作者...  

用户评价

很实用的一本书，虽然一时想不起来哪里特别惊艳。让自己更勇于面对不能确定的变化，并把这认为是一件好事儿。一点一滴中，活的更好。

缺乏深度，没什么意思

答案就是他实在是尝试过太多的事了，超凡的努力招致了超凡的运气。方法论是基于争议不断的 ego depletion effect，用系统的思路做精力管理。

虽说道理貌似听上去都挺简单的，但是我觉得醍醐灌顶！可能是最近的境遇正好和他的意见在一个频道上吧

系统而非目标；精力管理而非时间管理；找到最大化提高你创造力和生产率的时间安排。