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The James Altucher Show

Ep. 47 - Scott Adams: The Secret to Dilbert's Success

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Society & Culture, Talk Radio, Writer, Philosophy, Comedy, Chess, How To, Entrepreneurship, Jay, James, The James Altucher Show, Altucher, Author, Jay Yow, Education, Jay The Engineer, Business, James Altucher

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2014

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever been bored at work or in school and doodled on a notepad?Imagine if that doodle was your ticket to success? Well, it was for today's guest.Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip and author of How to Fail at Almost Everything and...

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.4

This is the James Alteter Show on the Standsbury Radio Network.

0:14.1

So, Scott, I just bought or I pre-ordered your latest book, which now I immediately forget

0:26.7

the name of.

0:27.7

Go ahead, I'll use some place, go ahead, value some place else.

0:30.9

So I'm looking forward to getting that.

0:32.5

Okay, yes.

0:34.0

And but I have to say, as much as I enjoy your Dilbert comics, I enjoy even more everything

0:42.0

else you write.

0:43.0

Like your book from last year had to fail at almost everything and still win big.

0:47.6

Kind of the story of my life is one of my favorite books.

0:50.7

Thank you.

0:51.7

I appreciate that.

0:53.8

It hasn't gotten nearly the public acceptance that I would hope, but the small group of

1:00.4

people who are reading it seem pretty excited about it.

1:03.3

So that's meaningful.

1:04.3

Well, let me ask you a question.

1:06.3

Given that you're read in 2,000 newspapers or more now for all, I know how come this

1:13.2

book didn't really get all out there?

1:17.0

I think it's in a genre that tends to be more of a fashion type of a business because

1:24.4

it used to be the self-help books where everything, everywhere there was a self-help book.

1:28.9

Now I think you'd find that probably there are very few self-help books of any type that

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