How to Be a Complete and Utter Failure in Life, Work & Everything: 44 1/2 Steps to Lasting Underachievement

Chapter Two. Don’t do things on purpose

Quote to avoid

	“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it, you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.”
	--Garrison Keillor

The four building blocks of failure

This is what eminent psychiatrist Dr. Anthony Clare had to say about happiness in an interview I once read. “It’s not simply a matter of having friends, but of feeling a part of something bigger than oneself: whether through family, work, or community. That’s why World War II veterans often say that, despite the hardships, the war was one of the happiest ...