

One person he reached out to encouraged him to keep trying - sending a reminder to Adams a year after their initial conversation.

He created Dilbert in his spare time, and shopped it around, getting rejected by nearly every publishing house and syndicator.

This week, Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, and author of How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, and most recently of Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter.Īdams describes how he managed to put himself into a position to allow luck to shine on him He moved away from upstate New York to San Francisco, where he kept “ trying to increase the odds of getting lucky.”
