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Index
Title Page
About the Author
Introduction
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
CHAPTER ONE: The Time I Was Crazy
CHAPTER TWO: The Day of the Talk
CHAPTER THREE: Passion Is Bullshit
CHAPTER FOUR: Some of My Many Failures in Summary Form
CHAPTER FIVE: My Absolute Favorite Spectacular Failure
CHAPTER SIX: Goals Versus Systems
CHAPTER SEVEN: My System
CHAPTER EIGHT: My Corporate Career Fizzled
CHAPTER NINE: Deciding Versus Wanting
CHAPTER TEN: The Selfishness Illusion
CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Energy Metric
Matching Mental State to Activity
Simplifiers Versus Optimizers
Sitting Position
Tidiness
Knowledge and the Lack Thereof
Don’t Be an Asshole
Priorities
CHAPTER TWELVE: Managing Your Attitude
The Power of Smiling
Success Premium
Pick the Delusion That Works
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: It’s Already Working
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: My Pinkie Goes Nuts
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: My Speaking Career
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: My Voice Problem Gets a Name
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Voice Solution That Didn’t Work
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Recognizing Your Talents and Knowing When to Quit
CHAPTER NINETEEN: Is Practice Your Thing?
CHAPTER TWENTY: Managing Your Odds for Success
The Success Formula: Every Skill You Acquire Doubles Your Odds of Success
The Knowledge Formula: The More You Know, the More You Can Know
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: The Math of Success
Public Speaking
Psychology
Business Writing
Accounting
Design
Conversation
Overcoming Shyness
Second Language
Golf
Proper Grammar
Persuasion
Technology (Hobby Level)
Proper Voice Technique
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Pattern Recognition
Successful People
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Humor
Tailor Your Humor
Jim’s Colonoscopy Story
Engineered Humor
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Affirmations
How It Started
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Timing Is Luck Too
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: A Few Times Affirmations Worked
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Voice Update
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Experts
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Association Programming
CHAPTER THIRTY: Happiness
Routine
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: Diet
Look for the Pattern
The Food–Exercise Connection
How to Know What to Eat
A Diet Template from Your Smart(ish) Friend
Know Why You’re Eating
How to Make Healthy Food Taste Good
Adjusting Your Lifestyle for Healthy Eating
The Vegetarian Option
Coffee
Pleasure Unit Hypothesis
The Healthy Eating Summary
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: Fitness
Be Active Every Day
Motivation to Exercise
Reward
Hair-Care Death Spiral
We Prefer You Healthy
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: Voice Update 2
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: Luck
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: CalendarTree Start-up
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: Voice Update 3
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: A Final Note About Affirmations
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: Summary
Notes
Acknowledgments
Follow Penguin
Copyright Page
Footnotes
CHAPTER FOUR: Some of My Many Failures in Summary Form
Page 16
Page 17
CHAPTER TWELVE: Managing Your Attitude
Page 70
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: My Pinkie Goes Nuts
Page 78
CHAPTER NINETEEN: Is Practice Your Thing?
Page 92
CHAPTER TWENTY: Managing Your Odds for Success
Page 99
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: The Math of Success
Page 121
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Affirmations
Page 155
Page 157
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Voice Update
Page 164
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: Diet
Page 183
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