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#106: Scott Adams: The Man Behind Dilbert

The Tim Ferriss Show

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Goals vs Systems

If you're focused on one thing for more than a minute and a half, there's a good chance that that thing is no longer worth having. There are people going to school for degrees that won't mean anything even four years from now. As soon as you focus, you've given yourself something to fail at, and you've closed yourself out from other opportunities. So what i write about instead is what i call a system's way of looking at the world in which you are continually looking at ways to improve your odds without being too specific.

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