Overview

Really want to know how to fail? Consistently? Massively? Irrevocably?

Failure How ToSteve McDermott’s spent years studying the world’s greatest failures: those extraordinary individuals who’ve spectacularly underachieved in every walk of life. They all use the exact same skills and strategies–and you can learn them, too. (Maybe you know some already!)

In this quick, incredibly practical guide to failure, McDermott brings together dozens of state-of-the-art techniques guaranteed to help you crash, burn, and disappoint everyone in your life. In just minutes, discover how to fail at: Leadership, Relationships, Personal growth, Achieving happiness, Teamwork, Planning, Goal-setting , Careers…

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3 Responses :D Pretty Cool

  • i’m a FAILURE, so i “think” i don’t need this book :D

  • I’m already following more than half of the steps mentioned on that book (^_^)

  • @Dos
    you’re just a newbie, this book will help you to become a pro failure 2.0

    @Tao
    they are so funny that they deserve to be quoted :

    Step One: Don’t decide what you want. If you do decide what you want, don’t think about why you want it. And if you do decide why you want it, commit to believing you can’t have it.

    Step Two: Don’t do things on purpose

    Step Three: Don’t stop working for a living

    Step Four: Don’t know what you value in life (and if you do, lose sight of it)

    Step Five: Don’t spend any of your time in the future

    Step Six: Don’t have any goals

    Step Seven: If you do have goals, don’t put them in writing, and if you do, don’t think too big

    Step Eight: Don’t plan your priorities

    Step Nine: Don’t involve other people

    Step Ten: Don’t have a mentor or be a mentor

    Step Eleven: Don’t get advice from people you’ve never met or who are dead

    Step Twelve: Don’t take action right now

    Step Thirteen: Don’t get feedback on your actions

    Step Fourteen: Don’t adjust

    Step Fifteen: Don’t get even more feedback, don’t be flexible…(you get the idea)

    Step Sixteen: Don’t practice continuous improvement

    Step Seventeen: Don’t wear a parachute

    Step Eighteen: Don’t change your beliefs

    Step Nineteen: Don’t stop having a deep fear of failure and of making a fool of yourself

    Step Twenty: Don’t take personal responsibility for your life and results

    Step Twenty-one: Don’t stop believing in luck

    Step Twenty-two: Don’t expand your comfort zone

    Step Twenty-three: Don’t use inside-out thinking

    Step Twenty-four: Don’t put things in before you try to take things out

    Step Twenty-five: Don’t control your moods

    Step Twenty-six: Don’t transform your language

    Step Twenty-seven: Don’t think about the first four minutes

    Step Twenty-eight: Don’t talk and think about what you want

    Step Twenty-nine: Don’t go to the movies

    Step Thirty: Don’t stop being an unthinking dog

    Step Thirty-one: Don’t ask ‘How do you do that?’ Don’t act ‘as if’. And don’t be naïve.

    Step Thirty-two: Don’t change the meaning of things

    Step Thirty-three: Don’t stop thinking only about money, money, money

    Step Thirty-four: Don’t have a good laugh

    Step Thirty-five : Don’t be creative or innovative

    Step Thirty-six : Don’t think of your own idea to go here

    Step Thirty-seven: Don’t stop always taking ‘no’ for an answer

    Step Thirty-eight: Don’t be grateful

    Step Thirty-nine: Don’t commit to lifelong learning

    Step Forty: Don’t be a leader

    Step Forty-one : Don’t learn to communicate

    Step Forty-two : Don’t understand the secrets of great teams and great customer service

    Step Forty-three: Don’t develop winners and winning relationships

    Step Forty-four: Don’t Step up. Don’t do extraordinary things

    Step Forty-four-and-a-half: Don’t stop doing everything by halves, that’s if you do anything at all.

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