How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Name of the Book: - How
to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Author: - Scott
Adams
No of Chapters: -
38
Number of Pages: - 246
Single sentence description of Book: - Just believe and keep on trying, miracles
can happen.
What this book is about: - The book is a
journey of Scott Adams creator of Dilbert comic strip about his life, career, failures
and challenges. In the book, the author explained about more than 25 businesses which he undertook and
failed and each business provided him a new learning before becoming finally
successful at Dilbert comic strip. Author lays down the importance of failures,
as each failure teaches us some new thing and widens our perspective towards
life. Author has also explained the
power of affirmations by which he was able to overcome lots of obstacles in
life. In the book, author has presented a list of skills that every adult
person should gain to achieve success in life. Against the conventional system
of following the goals, author lays importance on systems to achieve results in
every aspect of life. Two chapters in the book has been exclusively dedicated
to diet and fitness which supports author’s claim that healthy body is very
much essential for development of any person.
Few Special insights from the
Book: -
1.
The books provide good explanation on how to manage your odds for success
and explains the fact that every new acquired skill would enhance chances of
your success.
2.
The book gives deep insight on ingredients of good conversation. Some of
them discussed in the chapter are what topics to be avoided, when to add twist
in your conversations, how to use foreshadowing in conversations.
3.
The explains the importance of humour in life and how much it is important
for success of an individual.
4.
It provides a detailed explanation of various techniques, words and phrases which can prove useful during persuasion.
5.
The book lays special emphasis on affirmation and explains the experiment
of author with affirmations
in his life.
Overall Review:
- Book is composition of author’s
experience with failures in life and how he learned a new thing in life from
each failure. Book covers author’s take on various topics like happiness, diet, fitness,
humour, energy metric, maths of success and many more. Overall a book is good read
and can provide great information on importance of affirmations in life.
Nice review sir.
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