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title:: Books / How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big author:: @Scott Adams published:: 2013 length:: 247 pages start:: Jan, 2021 end:: Apr, 2021 - - Cover notes collapsed:: true - hooked to but after that reference in atomic habit bought is as part of the first batch of books on systems thinking systems vs goals, talent stack - og scott adam’s ideas - scott’s story with the wisdom he gained stated as concepts. Scott has a very astute and broad perspective life. He seems well read and can be phony but not any kind of phony, the kind of phony that’s knows all phony. - Book Tease Goals are for losers. Your mind isn’t magic. It’s a moist computer you can program. The most important metric to track is your personal energy. Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. Happiness is health plus freedom. Luck can be managed, sort of. Conquer shyness by being a huge phony (in a good way). Fitness is the lever that moves the world. Simplicity transforms ordinary into amazing. - “Failure is a resource that can be managed.” - “If you do something every day, it’s a system. If you’re waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it’s a goal.” - “Smiling makes you feel better even if your smile is fake.” - “My main point about perceptions is that you shouldn’t hesitate to modify your perceptions to whatever makes you happy, because you’re probably wrong about the underlying nature of reality anyway.” - Good + Good > Excellent #talentstack - “I’m the happiest person in the room.” - “Rational behavior is especially useless in any situation that is too complex for a human to grasp.” - cahp 21 on top skills to learn is gold! makes you smarter just reading it - “If you’re physically attractive, it probably isn’t a good idea to talk too much.” the chapters (30 inwRds ) on happiness - diet, exercise, food is mood - they said my bones have e to realize after 2012 - Progressive Summarizations - System vs Goals - Then he offered me some career advice. He said that every time he got a new job, he immediately started looking for a better one. For him, job seeking was not something one did when necessary. It was an ongoing process. - I believe the way he explained it is that your job is not your job; your job is to find a better job. This was my first exposure to the idea that one should have a system instead of a goal. The system was to continually look for better options. - For our purposes, let’s say a goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don’t sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. - ==**If you do something every day, it’s a system. If you’re waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it’s a goal.**== - If you achieve your goal, you celebrate and feel terrific, but only until you realize you just lost the thing that gave you purpose and direction. - Systems have no deadlines, and on any given day you probably can’t tell if they’re moving you in the right direction. - Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do. That’s a big difference in terms of maintaining your personal energy in the right direction. - In the world of dieting, losing twenty pounds is a goal, but eating right is a system. - My proposition is that if you study people who succeed, you will see that most of them follow systems, not goals. - The minimum requirement of a system is that a reasonable person expects it to work more often than not. Buying lottery tickets is not a system no matter how regularly you do it. - I have a friend who is a gifted salesman. He could have sold anything, from houses to toasters. The field he chose allows him to sell a service that almost always auto-renews. In other words, he can sell his service once and enjoy ongoing commissions until the customer dies or goes out of business. - What I see is a man who accurately identified his skill set and chose a system that vastly increased his odds of getting “lucky.” - How much passion does this fellow have for his chosen field? Answer: zero. What he has is a spectacular system, and that beats passion every time. - My system of creating something the public wants and reproducing it in large quantities nearly guaranteed a string of failures. By design, all of my efforts were long shots. Had I been goal oriented instead of system oriented, I imagine I would have given up after the first several failures. It would have felt like banging my head against a brick wall. But being systems oriented, I felt myself growing more capable every day, no matter the fate of the project I happened to be working on. - And every day during those years I woke up with the same thought, literally, as I rubbed the sleep from my eyes and slapped the alarm clock off. Today’s the day. - If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. Successful people don’t wish for success; they decide to pursue it. And to pursue it effectively, they need a system. Success always has a price, but the reality is that the price is negotiable. - - Highlights -