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

by McDermott, Steve

• ISBN13: 9780138138103
• ISBN10: 0138138109
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-10
• Publisher: Ft Pr

Summary

Really want to know how to fail? Consistently? Massively? Irrevocably? Steve McDermott's your man. For years, he's been studying failure in action: those extraordinary individuals who've massively, spectacularly underachieved in every walk of life. Guess what: they all share the exact same strategies for failure: strategies they use each and every day to become total washouts. Now, McDermott's brought all those skills together in the quickest, most concise, most complete guide to failure ever written. You name it, this book will help you flop at it: leadership, communication, teamwork, customer service, and a whole lot more. You'll even learn how to make an absolutely horrid first impression. This book was an international bestseller (so that's why there's so much failure and incompetence everywhere you look!) Now, in this version updated for US audiences, McDermott's back with even more techniques, new stories, actions not to take, and exercises not to try. You'll find dozens of classic techniques guaranteed to help you fail, plus five brand new ways to crash, burn, and disappoint everyone in your life. (Hey! It just occurred to us... you could read this book and do the exact opposite of everything Steve McDermott tells you to do. If you did that, you'd be a complete and utter success, wouldn't you? Umm... nahhh, just a thought... better forget we mentioned it.)

Author Biography

Steve McDermott is one of the UK’s top motivational speakers, personal coaches, trainers, and consultants. The world’s #1 expert on failure, he’s been featured on everything from CNN to BBC Radio.

Table of Contents

Preface

How to get the most from this guide

Introduction

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

Don't do things on purpose

Don't stop working for a living

Don't know what you value in life (and if you do, lose sight of it)

Don't spend any of your time in the future

Step 6

If you do have goals, don't put them in writing, and if you do, don't think too big

Don't plan your priorities

Don't involve other people

Don't have a mentor or be a mentor

Don't get advice from people you've never met or who are dead

Don't take action right now

Don't get feedback on your actions

Don't adjust

Don't get even more feedback, don't be flexible...(you get the idea)

Don't practice continuous improvement

Don't wear a parachute

Don't change your beliefs

Don't stop having a deep fear of failure and of making a fool of yourself

Don't take personal responsibility for your life and results

Don't stop believing in luck

Don't expand your comfort zone

Don't use inside-out thinking

Don't put things in before you try to take things out

Don't control your moods

Don't transform your language

Don't think about the first four minutes

Don't talk and think about what you want

Don't go to the movies

Don't stop being an unthinking dog

Don't ask 'How do you do that?' Don't act 'as if' And don't be nave

Step 32

Don't stop thinking only about money, money, money

Don't have a good laugh

Don't be creative or innovative

Don't think of your own idea to go here

Don't stop always taking 'no' for an answer

Don't be grateful

Don't commit to lifelong learning

Don't be a leader

Don't learn to communicate

Don't understand the secrets of great teams and great customer service

Don't develop winners and winning relationships

Don't step up Don't do extraordinary things

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