How to Fail at Almost Everything
This is the sixth, of an ongoing series, that seeks to understand the Powers of Persuasion.
This book can be summed up in the author’s Slideshare presentation:
to previous Persuasion posts.
This Persuasion Series is described in the introduction article Raise Your Steem Power Through Persuasion, but that is not necessary to read to learn from this post.
You could read all the persuasion books yourself, but by upvoting my articles you are outsourcing the hard part and getting all the good stuff filtered directly to you.
Scott Adams is the man behind the Persuasion Reading List that these post are based upon.
And like any good author, Scott included his own book to the list for people to read.
This gets him more influence, more book sales, lumps him in with the heavy hitters on the topic, and leverages himself into a position of “authority”.
Oh and his list is probably all Amazon Affiliate Links.
I don’t know for sure, but just guessing it is another way for him to make “passive income”.
How to Fail at Almost Everything… is Scott's life story.
It has some funny parts, which is to be expected from a cartoonist, and it has some other interesting ideas.
Most notably the “moist robot hypothesis”.
This isn’t news.
Most people call this idea of systems based life: “habits”.
This reminded me of one of my favorite books about habits and how to incorporate good ones into my life.
Og Mandino wrote in his bestselling book The Greatest Salesman in the World a series of Ten “Scrolls” starting with Scroll I - The Power of Good Habits.
Scott sums up his book best in Chapter 38, the Summary:
He suggests that to “be successful” you should “focus on your diet first and get that right so you have enough energy to want to exercise. Exercise will further improve your energy, and that in turn will make you more productive, more creative, more positive, more socially desirable, and more able to handle life’s little bumps.” (p. 230)
I would add to that the need for good sleep.
And James Altucher might suggest pooping every day.
These are, or should be, common knowledge ways to improve your life.
Sadly, most people push things like sleeping, eating right, and exercising to the fringes of their life or neglect them all together.
Personally, I know every time I notice my life seeming out of control or going poorly, it is because I have let one of these things get to an unhealthy state.
Essentially this book is more about entertainment than actually training in Persuasion.
But without good health, the rest is meaningless…
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Please check out the previous discussions on Persuasion:
Introduction to Persuasion Series
First Flight: Imagination and Persuasion
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Influence by Robert B. Cialdini -- Part 1
Influence -- Part 2: Resistance to Persuasion is Futile. Part 2 of 2
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams
Coming Soon…. I have not yet selected the next book from the list that I will be reading, but will do so soon.
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(All robot images from steemd.com)
Very useful, took a note.
It helps.