Earlier this month, newspaper readers across the world were surprised when Dogbert, Dilbert's anthropomorphic talking pet dog declared that Asok the intern was gay. This was to 'commemorate' the recent Supreme Court ruling criminalizing homosexuality in India. Explaining why the work place focused comic took a stand on this issue, its creator Scott Adams says, 'It's part of a larger pattern where the government has overstepped. I've been campaigning for allowing assisted-suicide and have rallied against President Obama's closing of medial marijuana dispensaries. What all of these have in common is government overreach - into our privacy, bedrooms and health choices.'
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He points out that in a sense it's not too far removed from Dilbert as this too, like the situations Dilbert finds himself in, are the result of a bureaucracy and control. On a larger level, Adams says that after his father passed away a few months ago, he feels free to take on more dangerous material as he is no longer worried about embarrassing his parents. 'My career is at a point where I don't need to make money if I choose not to. If I can make the world better at a personal cost to myself then I'm in a weird position where I can absorb the personal cost easily and the benefit to the world might be worth it,' he says. Dilbert, which captures the travails of a nerdy engineer in the corporate bureaucracy has had a successful run of 25 years now and is among the most widely syndicated comics, appearing in over 2000 publications in 75 countries and 25 languages.
Scott Adams Inc, the business entity has also expanded to cover rights to the ten Dilbert books and Dilbert merchandise. At 56, Adams is at a stage in his career where it makes sense to look back and reflect.
This eventually took shape as a book, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, a book he describes as something that takes an entire life to write. Explaining the series of incidents that shaped his life, he starts with the time he was still in college and had applied for a job at an accounting firm. He assumed that he must go dressed as the student he was and not dressed for the job he wanted, in a suit and tie, and was promptly thrown out. 'Every moment of my life was like that. I realised that there's no such thing as common sense, only experience.
I was in a unique position to write about it partly because of my many, many personal failures which gave me a large enough canvas to draw upon, and also because I'm a professional simplifier. What I do best is take complicated things and boil them down to their simplest form,' he says. The first thing almost everyone does before embarking on something new is to talk to someone who has done it before about how they did it and how it worked out for them.
Of course your situation will be different but this helps narrow down your options and eliminate any dumb choices along the way. Adams wasn't quite so lucky. 'I came from a small town and didn't have any mentors. I didn't know anyone who had been to college except for my teachers.
The book is my attempt to add something to the universe that could be useful to someone else,' he says. Perhaps the most important bit of advice he gives is to set systems and not goals if you really want to succeed. 'Goals are fine when your objective is simple and not very far — say trying to shoot a target at a shooting range.
In the real world there is a lot of complexity and it's impossible to predict economic forces, technological changes and even life changes,' says Adams. The risk then in focusing on a goal is that you may end up overlooking opportunities that may be better for you than the goal you've set yourself. A system moves you from low odds to better odds. If you're working on a project and the final result isn't what you want, it would be considered a failure.