Utilize your situation to get you to the next level. Everytime you get a new job, start looking for a better one.

See Outcomes As Tools

• One simple way to keep your priorities straight is by judging how each of your options will influence your personal energy• It’s not a foolproof gauge, but if you know a particular path will make you feel more stressed, unhealthy, and drained, it’s probably the wrong choice

Managing Priorities

"If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it"

• The time you spend chasing one of your desires is the time can't spend chasing the others • There are desires that you have give up in order for you to focus on the desire that you truly want

Chasing Desires

• Start-ups often do better by slapping together something that is 80 percent good and seeing how the public responds• There’s time to improve things later if the market cares about the produc

80% Good

"Cultivate a unique relationship with failure. Invite it, survive it, and appreciate it."

• Working on projects that have a real chance of changing the world, helping humanity, and/or making a billion dollars• Having a project outside of your school or job can help you hold on to something whenever you encounter failure or setbacks

How Can I Make My Life More Meaningful?

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.

Success Caused Passion More Than Passion Caused Success

Wear decent clothes and make yourself presentable so that you can network better.

Appearance Matters

Exercise, food, and sleep should be your first buttons to push if you’re trying to elevate your attitude and raise your energy

What To Do When I'm Drained?

"Failure is where success likes to hide in plain sight"

• Whenever you converse with yourself, act like you're conversing with another person • When times get hard, help yourself as you help another person • Converse with yourself better and tame your irrational self

See Your Mind As Two Individuals

• Feeling energetic makes you wanna play sports, but playing sports also makes you energetic • High testosterone helps you win in competitions, but winning in competitions also raises your testosterone

Know The Causations

"In the near term it would mean one failure after another. In the long term I was creating a situation that would allow luck to find me."

When interviewing for jobs, "Make yourself look good on paper."

• You won't always achieve your goals so follow systems instead.• Systems are what you do everyday to keep you on track.• Your goal could be losing weight and your system could be eating healthier and exercise.

Follow Systems Instead Of Goals

Blasting clichéd career advice, the contrarian pundit and creator of Dilbert recounts the humorous ups and downs of his career, revealing the outsized role of luck in our lives and how best to play the system. Scott Adams has likely failed at more things than anyone you’ve ever met or anyone you’ve even heard of. So how did he go from hapless office worker and serial failure to the creator of Dilbert, one of the world’s most famous syndicated comic strips, in just a few years? In How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Adams shares the game plan he’s followed since he was a teen: invite failure in, embrace it, then pick its pocket. No career guide can offer advice that works for everyone. As Adams explains, your best bet is to study the ways of others who made it big and try to glean some tricks and strategies that make sense for you. Adams pulls back the covers on his own unusual life and shares how he turned one failure after another—including his corporate career, his inventions, his investments, and his two restaurants—into something good and lasting. There’s a lot to learn from his personal story, and a lot of entertainment along the way. Adams discovered some unlikely truths that helped to propel him forward. For instance: • Goals are for losers. Systems are for winners. • “Passion” is bull. What you need is personal energy. • A combination of mediocre skills can make you surprisingly valuable. • You can manage your odds in a way that makes you look lucky to others. Adams hopes you can laugh at his failures while discovering some unique and helpful ideas on your own path to personal victory. As he writes: “This is a story of one person’s unlikely success within the context of scores of embarrassing failures. Was my eventual success primarily a result of talent, luck, hard work, or an accidental just-right balance of each? All I know for sure is that I pursued a conscious strategy of managing my opportunities in a way that would make it easier for luck to find me.”

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Adams was born in Windham, New York in 1957 and received his Bachelor's degree in Economics from Hartwick College in 1979.He also studied economics and management for his 1986 MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.In recent years, Adams has been hurt with a series of debilitating health problems. Since late 2004, he has suffered from a reemergence of his focal dystonia which has affected his drawing. He can fool his brain by drawing using a graphics tablet. On December 12, 2005, Adams announced on his blog that he also suffers from spasmodic dysphonia.

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