How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do something every day, it’s a system.

Affirmations are simply the practice of repeating to yourself what you want to achieve while imagining the outcome you want. You can write it, speak it, or just think it in sentence form. The typical form of an affirmation would be “I, Scott Adams, will become an astronaut.” The details of affirmations probably don’t matter much because the process is about improving your focus, not summoning magic.

Luck can be managed, sort of.