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The World's Most Influential Book on Personal Success
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, humour, 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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ISBN: 9798988534952
Publisher: Scott Adams, Inc.
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 17 August 2023
Imprint: Scott Adams, Inc.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Contributors:
- Edited by Joshua Lisec
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 535g
Pages: 250
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 considered the world's best ghostwriter because people don't get rich selling books. With more than 80 books written for CEOs, celebrities, and entrepreneurs, Joshua has built an unstoppable results business for his clients. These authors have made so much more money through their authority-establishing books that many feel bad about how much they paid Joshua. And this despite him being one of the most expensive ghostwriters in America. Joshua is the only Certified Ghostwriter and Certified Hypnotist in the world and has a proven process for any aspiring author who has done the hard work of being the best at what they do. He takes great pride in his craft, delivering experts the authority book they've already earned. Learn more at www.LisecGhostwriting.com.
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