How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
By : Scott Adams
1. The theme is no matter how big or frequent your failures, learn from them, keep working, and good things will happen.
2. This book encourages you to develop a system, as systems are near-flawless, when compared to plans that fall through regularly. This connects me with the work that I did on the elevator pitches, as well as the venture concepts. The book also talks about reprogramming yourself and that is something that I have certainly had to do over the course of this class. It also analyzes your failures, much like the Celebrating Your Failure exercise.
3. In the book, it discusses its Six Filters of Truth, which are multiple filters to analyze whether or not a piece of information is true. I think it would be useful to have an exercise in which you run any of the interviews that someone has did through the filters and see what they learn from them.
4. His formula, "Good + Good = Excellent" struck me. I have often told me that I know a little about a lot and it helps with finding common ground in a situation. This formula is very similar, as it basically indicates that cultivating multiple skills makes you a much more accomplished human being and that having a wide range of skills will benefit you in life. This theory is something that I actually practice on a daily basis and I thought that it was pretty interesting. I also found it interesting that the author, who created the Dilbert series, does not consider himself to be a good artist.
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