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Book: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
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  1. Scott Adams _ How to Fail at Almost

    Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice, tells us that people become unhappy if they have too many options in life. The problem with options is that choosing any path can leave you plagued with self-doubt.
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  2. Scott Adams _ How to Fail at Almost

    You might be familiar with a television show that was called The Dog Whisperer. On the show, Cesar Millan, a dog-training expert, helped people get their seemingly insane dogs under control. Cesar's main trick involved training the humans to control their own emotional states, because dogs can pick up crazy vibes from their owners.
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  3. Scott Adams _ How to Fail at Almost

    The most effective way to stop people from trying to persuade me is to say, 'I'm not interested.' You should try it. Don't offer a reason why you aren't interested. No one can say why a thing holds interest for some and not for others. There's no argument against a lack of interest.
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  4. Scott Adams _ How to Fail at Almost

    money distorts truth like a hippo in a thong.
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  5. Scott Adams _ How to Fail at Almost

    Everything you want out of life is in that huge, bubbling vat of failure. The trick is to get the good stuff out.
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  6. Scott Adams _ How to Fail at Almost

    I've long seen failure as a tool, not an outcome.
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  7. Scott Adams _ How to Fail at Almost

    Persistence is useful, but there's no point in being an idiot about it.
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  8. Scott Adams _ How to Fail at Almost

    This was about the time that my opinion of experts, and authority figures in general, began a steady descent that continues to this day.
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  9. Scott Adams _ How to Fail at Almost

    If eating a healthy diet feels unpleasant, you're doing it wrong. And you're wasting your limited stockpile of willpower.
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  10. Scott Adams _ How to Fail at Almost

    I also find it helpful to remind myself that every human is a mess on the inside. It's easy to assume the good-looking and well-spoken person in front of you has it all together and is therefore your superior. The reality is that everyone is a basket case on the inside. Some people just hide it better. Find me a normal person and I'll show you someone you don't know that well. It helps to remind yourself that your own flaws aren't that bad compared with everyone else's. I
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  11. Scott Adams _ How to Fail at Almost

    Every generation before us believed, like Snickers, that it had things figured out. We now know that every generation before us was wrong about a lot of it. Is it likely that you were born at the tipping point of history, in which humans know enough about reality to say we understand it? This is another case where humility is your friend.
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  12. Scott Adams _ How to Fail at Almost

    Consider the people who routinely disagree with you. See how confident they look while being dead wrong? That's exactly how you look to them.
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