#347 in Arts & photography books
Use arrows to jump to the previous/next product

Reddit mentions of How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

Sentiment score: 6
Reddit mentions: 10

We found 10 Reddit mentions of How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life. Here are the top ones.

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
Buying options
View on Amazon.com
or
    Features:
  • Portfolio
Specs:
ColorRed
Height8.3 Inches
Length5.4 Inches
Number of items1
Release dateDecember 2014
Weight0.48 Pounds
Width0.8 Inches

idea-bulb Interested in what Redditors like? Check out our Shuffle feature

Shuffle: random products popular on Reddit

Found 10 comments on How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life:

u/NotEnoughVideoGames · 15 pointsr/The_Donald

Just to give a little plug too, I bought Scott's book because of his persuasion game, and I thought it was fantastic, so I would definitely recomend it to any Centipedes:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Fail-Almost-Everything-Still/dp/1591847745/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1478719702&sr=8-1&keywords=scott+adams

u/UCIandWSU · 11 pointsr/The_Donald

I'm currently reading his book - it's a quick read, funny, and interesting. Your post has that same flavor.

I hope you make the big bucks in Vegas. I'll bet you're really good at what you do!

u/ZenNate · 2 pointsr/Futurology

> So choosing to discard ALL inventions will give you 99% prediction score.

This is correct. But someone who does this will also never be able to capitalize on a great opportunity. The higher one aims, the greater risk that person needs to accept. But most people vastly overestimate the danger of taking on some risk.

Just because you take a risk and lose, doesn't mean your life is over. You can rebuild and try again. Scott Adams (the author of the Dilbert comic strip) wrote a great book about how to look at risk. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

In one sense, being too risk-adverse is just as bad as being reckless with risk. Risk is a natural factor in any growth. Learning how to manage it well is a very valuable skill.

Also, most people vastly underestimate the risk in traditional investment vehicles. What they think is a low-risk investment strategy is actually a lot more risky than they know. See the Japanese NIKKEI for a lesson on how risky a whole stock index can be over a long period of time, for example.

u/mickelslam · 2 pointsr/IAmA

Correction: See How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big for Scott's diet and fitness systems.

u/maxwellbegun · 2 pointsr/Competitiveoverwatch

Oh, sure. First reddit comment of the day just after waking up. I knew I shoulda had a bit of caffeine first.

Scott Adams' is the guy who wrote Dilbert, a near-genius, and a serial entrepreneur. He's a self described 1%er and likes talking a lot about the psychology of winning. His latest book (How to fail at almost everything and still win big) talks a lot about his story of success. Early on, he references a lot of 'winners'. Invariably, most winners attribute their success to luck, circumstances, or some other uncontrollable variable. Why? Because the people asking them are almost universally less successful then they are.

Unfortunately, the secret to losing weight is eating less. Going out on more dates happens when you ask more people. Successful business owners keep going in debt for a new idea and convincing other people to finance it. Obama got his job because he's incredibly charismatic, he made a ton of friends in the Democrat Party, and he was at the perfect nexus of Progress & Diversity that often propels people in that party forward. He worked his ass off to get that nomination and eventually the presidency.

Success is based on working hard in the right way, not in getting lucky. At least according to Scott Adams.

Quick edit: And don't take this as an endorsement of Obama, his policies, or anything of the sort. I detest the man and everything he stands for. But I don't think he made it because he was lucky.

u/Dohoho_ · 1 pointr/The_Donald_Discuss

His book is at 4.5 stars, and only 3% of the reviews are 1-stars. Looks like his "trolls" are greatly outnumbered by his sycophants.

Based on the fact that the rest of his blog post is all about how great it is to psychologically manipulate people, his false claim about the reviews is probably just an attempt to drum up book sales.

u/2nd_class_citizen · 1 pointr/intj

Scott Adams' book is also pretty fantastic.

u/Klokinator · 1 pointr/TheCryopodToHell

Not a living from writing, but like any reasonably intelligent person, I'd like to make a living off my creative abilities rather than working a regular day job.

You should read Scott Adams' book. To summarize, I don't ever make goals of any sort, I only create systems that win more often than lose. I don't own a car because it's a major expense that won't pay off for a very long time. I don't plan out my entire story with precision because in the heat of the moment, something might strike me that I want to add. I have a general end goal for the story, but it might shift over time. As an example, my original goal for the labyrinth was that Umi had created a false representation of reality and everything was a weird simulation of reality. This is why there was a magic freezer that could create chicken from nothing, and a series of odd rooms that weren't quite right, such as a Japanese styled bathroom mixed with a victorian era bedroom and an alien-style armory.

These priorities shifted over time when I started mapping out the story just a bit more.

But yes, in the end, it all just grew organically out of the WP. It needs a lot of fixing, and I'm currently tracking 60-something plotholes and major story issues, not least of which was me forgetting Barbatos and confusing him with Agares. (CRINGE), my worst error to date.