2017年4月Productivity Game推荐本书，淘宝上购买电子书，花了一个半月读完本书，2023年6月回顾本书，并整理读书笔记。
作者: Scott Adams
标题：How to fail at almost everything but still win big
副标题: Kind of the Story of My Life
2017年：今年4月底开始读这本书，花了一个半月的时间，读完本书； 作者是《呆伯特》系列漫画的作者，介绍了自己的生活和工作流程，阐述了自己对成功的看法，最重要的一个观点是关于目标goals和系统system的看法：goals are for losers，失败者才追求目标，成功者追求系统system。 虽然有所偏颇，但是作者用自己的经历阐述了其中的道理，很有意思，也符合我今年追求的流程化和系统化的生活方式。
2023年：重读本书，目标（还）是建立系统，训练技能的框架，做到有生产力，就像学习六西格玛，不能仅限于懂，还要会灵活应用和实战
Key knowledge in this part:
- how to make a big decision, this book can help you narrow the choice (delete some obvious mistakes lots of people failed),
- we need a system for sorting truth from rubbish, or truth filter, there is six common filers about truth but each one is not alway right, therefore we should use consistency to double confirm whether it is true or not. （一致性确认）
- a BOLD attitude to failure: face it and find the value of it. (Just like the failed project in the work and we should avoid similar failure in the future)
- success, passion, and energy: (1) pass is bullshit, passionate people are more likely to take high risk, (2) success causes passion, not passion causes success! The passionate but failed people didn’t have the chance to tell you the truth, (3) energy is good, how to boost your energy? The key is system-oriented! （和其他书中观点不同，值得对比思考）
The purpose of the book is to teach you How to make complicated decision in your life!
Success = luck + hard-work.
Strategy to make success happen easier, or make luck finds you.
Most people is a bad bullshit detector and made bad decisions.
introduction
keyword: success wisdom, the book is a friend to discuss, stupid filter to avoid absurdity, decision and judgement for key choice, consistency to use two dimensions to filter the truth, learn to simplify and find the key point for life success
I am a professional simplifier.
‘Later in this book I will describe a simplification that can inform all of the steps you take toward your own personal success
I’m presenting some new ways to think about the process of finding happiness and success.
Success is related with luck, and the successful people confirm they deserve it because of their hard work. That may be confirmation bias.
The author believes success is a balance of luck and hard-work. But there is “a conscious strategy of managing my opportunities in a way that would make it easier for luck to find me.”
Book Tease
- Goals are for losers. （system is the key)
- Your mind isn’t magic. It’s a most powerful computer you can program.
- The most important metric to track is your personal energy. (passion is bullshit, energy is the key)
- Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. (learn skills as a system, not just a goal)
- Happiness is health plus freedom.
- Luck can be managed, sort of.
- Conquer shyness by being a huge phony (in a good way).
- Fitness is the lever that moves the world.
- Simplicity transforms ordinary into amazing.
Before you decide whether anything I say in this book is useful, you need a system for sorting truth from rubbish. Most people think they have perfectly good bullshit detectors. (But they don’t)
When it comes to any big or complicated question, humility is the only sensible point of view. [Note: wrong choice for big questions is a high risk for the life.]
The Six Filters for Truth
- Personal experience (Human perceptions are iffy.)
- Experience of people you know (Even more unreliable.)
- Experts (They work for money, not truth.) [Note: that is what the author learned when the teacher suggest him to go home when he got a serious disease]
- Scientific studies (Correlation is not causation.)
- Common sense (A good way to be mistaken with complete confidence.)
- Pattern recognition (Patterns, coincidence, and personal bias look alike.)
In our messy, flawed lives, the nearest we can get to truth is Consistency.
Consistency: When seeking truth, your best bet is to look for confirmation on at least two of the dimensions I listed.
Chapter one and two. Sick issue and attitude to failure
the author got a sickness of unable to speak at the public. And but he tried to give a public speak because he want to know the reason and successful pattern to speak publicly.
Do not afraid of failure, the key is to find the value from failure. BE BOLD!
At this point in my story, you might have the following question: What kind of idiot puts himself in a position to be humiliated in front of a thousand people?
It’s a fair question. The answer is that over the years I have cultivated a unique relationship with failure, I invite it. I survive it. I appreciate it. And then I mug the shit out of it.
Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don’t let it leave until I extract that value. — chapter 2
chapter 3: passion is bullshit (energy is good)
an excellent chapter！
successful people always say you should follow your passion. However, the passionate people are more likely to take big risks in the pursuit of unlikely goals.
Successful people say the passion is the key to success, just because passion is democratic and it is people’s talent, available to all.
But the passionate people how failed do not get the chance to offer their advice to us.
The method of boosting personal energy is more important, when your energy is right, you perform better at everything you do.
My hypothesis is that Passionate people are more likely to take big risks in the pursuit of unlikely goals, and so you would expect to see more failure and more huge success among the passionate.
The answer is success caused passion more than passion caused success.
Energy is good, and passion is bullshit.
If you ask a billionaire the secret of his success, he might say it is passion, because that sounds like a sexy answer that is suitably humble. But after a few drinks I think he’d say his success was a combination of desire, luck, hard work, determination, brains, and appetite for risk.
Reference:
Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead.
hook:how to fail and still win big
2023.6.5 morning at tes， read introduction part, organize reading note before going to bed.
2023.6.20 chapter two and three, passion is bullshit, energy is good.
2023-9-17 review the knowledge and publish