How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big Summary

• Personal experience
• Experience of people you know 
• Experts 
• Scientific studies 
• Common sense 
• Pattern recognition.

When seeking truth, your best bet is to look for confirmation on at least two of these dimensions.

The systems model can be applied to most human endeavors:

• In the world of dieting - losing twenty pounds is a goal, but eating right is a system.
• In the exercise/fitness realm - running a marathon in under four hours is a goal, but exercising daily is a system.
• In business - making a million pounds is a goal, but being a serial entrepreneur is a system.

A goal Is a specific objective that you either achieve or don't some time in the future.

If you are waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it's a goal.

A system is something you do regularly which increases your odds of happiness in the long run.

If you do something regularly, it's a system.

Self-help gurus have a knack for encouraging people to create and stick to goals. But Adam believes goals are for losers. According to him, the reality is that even the clearest goals have two problems that will always persist:

Goals are future-oriented

Goals can become overly-specific

Firstly, there is the issue that goals are placed in the future, but we have to work in the present to achieve them. This means you are unlikely to see any results from your actions until much further down the line. Most people would find this reality frustrating and discouraging.

The specific nature of goals can also lead to similar frustrations. For example, people often feel like failures if they don’t accomplish exactly what they set out to do. They may still be highly successful, but not meeting their goals leaves them feeling they haven’t accomplished anything. An example of this would be losing weight by a specific date. This goal prevents you from feeling successful during the journey of losing weight and will leave you feeling like a failure if you fall even one pound short by that date.

Adams believes that systems are more effective than goals. Systems are firmly grounded in the present. This means they can be grounded in your life right now, and you will get daily pleasure from successfully operating them. Adams describes the time he first learned of the power of systems. He sat on a flight next to a man who explained to Adams how systems had transformed him from an employee to a CEO. 

Sometimes passions stems from the confidence the we are good at doing something. Over time it wears out when we encounter setbacks. This is when hardwork kicks in. We should value working hard on something rather than being passionate about it.

• Self-help gurus have a knack for encouraging people to create and stick to goals. But the author Adam believes goals are for losers. According to him, the reality is that even the clearest goals have two problems that will always persist:

1. Goals are future - oriented 
2. Goals can become overly-specific.

• Firstly, there is the issue that the goals are placed in the future, but we have to work in the present to achieve them. This means you are unlikely to see any results from your actions until much further down the line. Most people would find this reality frustrating and discouraging. The specific nature of goals can also lead to similar frustrations. For example, people often feel like failures if they don't accomplish exactly what they set out to do. They may still be highly successful, but not meeting their goals leaves them feeling they haven't accomplished anything.

• The author believes that systems are more effective than goals. Systems are firmly grounded in the present. This means they can be grounded in your life right now, and you will get daily pleasure from successfully operating them. Author describes the time he first learned of the power of systems. He sat on a flight next to a man who explained how systems had transformed him from an employee to a CEO. The CEO said he became successful by always looking for a better job. You see most people wait until they need a job to start looking for one. When they reach their goal of finding a job they stop

Really makes yous act , what if you fail , failure happens all the time . People don't even try