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

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2014

⏱️ 64 minutes

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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 Still Win Big, joins The James Altucher Show to talk about his career and how it landed him exactly where he wanted to be.He shares with us the real story to his cartoonist career. From a boring corporate job to getting paid to just doodle at home... he shares how this rare scenario developed.What might be a complete surprise is that much of his success is due to failure... In fact, Scott has failed at more things than probably anyone you've ever met or heard of.It makes you wonder if your own personal path to victory is be mapped out by your own mistakes.There is a unique combination of talent, luck, hard work, and trial and error that Scott has found to be the foundation to his idea executions.Is the best way to get to good ideas through bad ideas?Listen and decide for yourself... ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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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