How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win BigBook
by Scott Adams
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Writer and researcher; founder of New Science, known for essays on science funding, sleep research and productivity at guzey.com.
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Scott Adams' How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big (2013)
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Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company; former product lead at KISSmetrics who writes about leadership and product management.
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This is a great book to read after you've read a bunch of the other books on my list. A little marketing, a little behaviorial economics, and a number of life lessons fill this book. Reading it was like having a conversation with someone who had read similar things to what I have and getting deep into their theories on how the world works. I picked up a number of ideas that made this a worthwhile read and enjoyed the act of being able to think back on a number of concepts he brings up that I read in other books.
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