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Blasting clichéd career advice, the contrarian pundit and creator of Dilbert recounts the humorous ups and downs of his career, revealing the outsized role of luck in our lives and how best to play the system.

Scott Adams has likely failed at more things than anyone you’ve ever met or…

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2 authors picked How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I would never have thought that the weird path that led me to running my own business would make sense to anyone else… until I read this book.

The idea of creating a “talent stack” made immediate sense to me and resonated strongly because it’s exactly how I’ve lived my life. Finding unique skills and talents and blending them into a mix that nobody else can duplicate has been the key to unlocking so much in my life.

I first heard about this book on a podcast, and it sounded interesting. A self-help book written by the creator of the Dilbert comic had to at least be entertaining. After reading it multiple times, I have found it to be one of the best out there.

I learned to manage energy rather than time, that willpower is useless, that passion follows success rather than the other way around, and that systems are much better than goals.

This book gave me a better framework for much of what I was already doing, and I love how it is written as…

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