Book description
Really want to know how to fail? Consistently? Massively? Irrevocably?
Steve 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
• Financial security • First impressions • And so much more!
DANGER: Do NOT attempt to reverse these techniques. If performed in the opposite fashion, they may cause spectacular success. The publisher and author will not be held responsible for wealth, happiness, or career achievements resulting from the use of these skills and strategies in reverse.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Introduction
- 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
- Two. Don’t do things on purpose
- Three. Don’t stop working for a living
- Four. Don’t know what you value in life (and if you do, lose sight of it)
- Five. Don’t spend any of your time in the future
- Six. Don’t have any goals
- Seven. If you do have goals, don’t put them in writing, and if you do, don’t think too big
- Eight. Don’t plan your priorities
- Nine. Don’t involve other people
- Ten. Don’t have a mentor or be a mentor
- Eleven. Don’t get advice from people you’ve never met or who are dead
- Twelve. Don’t take action right now
- Thirteen. Don’t get feedback on your actions
- Fourteen. Don’t adjust
- Fifteen. Don’t get even more feedback, don’t be flexible . . . (you get the idea)
- Sixteen. Don’t practice continuous improvement
- Seventeen. Don’t wear a parachute
- Eighteen. Don’t change your beliefs
- Nineteen. Don’t stop having a deep fear of failure and of making a fool of yourself
- Twenty. Don’t take personal responsibility for your life and results
- Twenty-one. Don’t stop believing in luck
- Twenty-two. Don’t expand your comfort zone
- Twenty-three. Don’t use inside-out thinking
- Twenty-four. Don’t put things in before you try to take things out
- Twenty-five. Don’t control your moods
- Twenty-six. Don’t transform your language
- Twenty-seven. Don’t think about the first four minutes
- Twenty-eight. Don’t talk and think about what you want
- Twenty-nine. Don’t go to the movies
- Thirty. Don’t stop being an unthinking dog
- Thirty-one. Don’t ask, “How do you do that?” Don’t act “as if.” And don’t be naïve
- Thirty-two. Don’t change the meaning of things
- Thirty-three. Don’t stop thinking only about money, money, money
- Thirty-four. Don’t have a good laugh
- Thirty-five. Don’t be creative or innovative
- Thirty-six. Don’t think of your own idea to go here
- Thirty-seven. Don’t stop always taking “no” for an answer
- Thirty-eight. Don’t be grateful
- Thirty-nine. Don’t commit to lifelong learning
- Forty. Don’t be a leader
- Forty-one. Don’t learn to communicate
- Forty-two. Don’t understand the secrets of great teams and great customer service
- Forty-three. Don’t develop winners and winning relationships
- Forty-four. Don’t step up. Don’t do extraordinary things
- Forty-four-and-a-half. Don’t stop doing everything by halves, that’s if you do anything at all
- Disclaimer
- Answers
Product information
- Title: How to Be a Complete and Utter Failure in Life, Work & Everything: 44 1/2 Steps to Lasting Underachievement
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2008
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780768681819
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