8 Lessons From How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

Scott Adams(creator of Dilbert comic strip), mentioned all his learnings and his viewpoint about a lot of things in life. Many people suggested this book to me, and finally, I got a chance to read it.

I found a lot of concepts/ideas that resonated with me and thought to share it with you all.

1. Focus on your diet

What you eat is what you become & food controls your mood. Pay attention to your mood after you had a specific food. You can find patterns then, you know what to keep in your diet and what you shouldn’t.

Diet means not eating less but eating healthy food as much as you want whenever you want. 

Here are a few things you can try:

• Cut down sugar
• Have more protein rich food
• Cut Carbs as much as possible
• Eat a lot of vegetables

2. Exercise (Being Active)

A strong mind resides in a strong body. Exercise helps you to connect with your mind properly and stay focused. If you have challenges in health, career, relationship, money, social life, etc then start focusing on improving your health. 

Doing better in one area of your life often reflects in others. Often Fixing health is the easiest thing you can do.

If you are finding it difficult to do exercise daily then here is the suggestion.

Always exercise at the same time every day.

After I started going to the gym, I can see the real impact on my self-image and confidence.

If you are in India and think your regular gym is boring, try Cult fit or during lockdown you can follow a 7-minutes workout. If you can’t work out, make sure to walk at least 10,000 steps per day. 

3. Manage your energy

A lot of us struggle with the time crunch and the best way to tackle it is by managing our personal energy. Eating right & being active will help you maintain your energy high. The other trick is, schedule your work based on your energy level.

I try avoiding meetings/calls in the first half of the day during which my focus is high so I focus on getting important things done.

4. Learn More Skills To Increase The Odds of Success

Success/luck doesn’t find you. You need to improve your skills to increase the odds of luck finding you. Whatever work you do, there are a few basic skills that you need to stand out in the crowd. And these skills help in increasing the probability of luck finding you.

Here are a few skills that you can develop.

• Public Speaking
• Persuasion
• Proper voice technique
• Second language 
• Psychology
• Writing
• Conversation

Note: During this lockdown time, I am working on improving my writing, voice, & learning sales techniques.

5. Positive Affirmations helps you to focus on your goals

Affirmations are simply the practice of repeating to yourself what you want to achieve while imagining the outcome you want.

Positive affirmation helps when you really believe in something. I strongly believe in “You become what you think”.

I have tried and it has a great impact on our thoughts. I strongly recommend you to try positive affirmations. You will see the magic happen. There is no harm in trying. Try for 30 days.

Here are a few affirmations to try.

• I attract an abundance of wealth and opportunity.
• Every part of my life is filled with prosperity.
• I love who I am, I naturally attract positive relationships into my life.

You can customize this as what you want to manifest. If you want to learn more on this, read “Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill” & “The Power of Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy”

6. Embrace the failure. Invite them in and learn from them

If success were easy, everyone would do it. It takes effort. 

Failure makes you stronger, better, smarter and more talented. Not everything you try can become successful but you can always learn something from your failure.

And the learnings from your mistakes will help you in some other place. If you have not tried that, you wouldn’t have gotten it.

I co-founded a start-up while I was doing my MBA but we had to shut due to many reasons. But during that process, I learned digital marketing to promote our startup. That’s how I entered the Digital marketing field. My startup experience helped me to connect with a lot of startups and help them in digital marketing.

7. If you need success, don't focus on goals; focus on building a system.

If you do something every day, then it is a system. If you are wanting to achieve something in the future then it is your goal.

Goal - I want to publish a book in the next 90 days.

System - Write 1000 words every day.

Why does System work? When you build a system around a task, you have less friction in doing it. Thus you continue to do it for a long time.

Note: That’s why building habits is essential. Read Automic Habits By James Clear, on habit building benefits of habits.

8. Happiness is a state of mind

We should start by understanding what is happiness. You might enjoy eating a delicious meal and feel happy but you can't feel the same if your stomach is partially full. The same food but situation decides your happiness quotient.

Here are the happiness formulas shared in the book.

• Eat right
• Exercise
• Get enough sleep
• Imagine an incredible future
• Work towards a flexible schedule
• Do things you can steadily improve at
• Help others

If you are looking for the next book to read, then I strongly recommend this. You will get different perceptions about a lot of things about life. You can buy the book from here: https://amzn.to/34rW8Pi

What is your favorite from above? Comment below.