The Scott Adams happiness formula, or life lessons from the Dilbert guy

dilbert-career-adviceI’m a big fan of Scott Adams and his irreverent, honest, quirky advice. I read his book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big [Kindle] and wanted to share his happiness formula (in the fulfilling and deep sense of the word and not the light happiness crap peddled by self-help gurus):

  1. Eat right
  2. Exercise
  3. Get enough sleep
  4. Imagine an incredible future (even if you don’t believe it)
  5. Work toward a flexible schedule
  6. Do things you can steadily improve at
  7. Help others (if you’ve already helped yourself)
  8. Reduce daily decisions to routine

Each item is — by itself — a life’s worth of challenges but taken together it’s practical and dare I say MECE? From personal experience #1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 work for me. I need to improve at #4, 7 and 8.

Enjoy!

PS Here are past items I wrote about Scott: on systems and on success

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