How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do something every day, it’s a system.

Affirmations are simply the practice of repeating to yourself what you want to achieve while imagining the outcome you want. You can write it, speak it, or just think it in sentence form. The typical form of an affirmation would be “I, Scott Adams, will become an astronaut.” The details of affirmations probably don’t matter much because the process is about improving your focus, not summoning magic.

Luck can be managed, sort of.

Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.

The most important metric to track is your personal energy.

Your mind isn’t magic. It’s a moist computer you can program.

Goals are for losers.

Nietzsche famously said, “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.

ramping up your energy without much effort

f success were easy, everyone would do it. It takes effort. That fact works to your advantage because it keeps lazy people out of the game