How to be a Complete and Utter F**k Up by Steve McDermott - Non Fiction - Paperback

Condition: Brand New. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781292342825. Publisher: Pearson. Age Range: Adult. Overview. Forget everything you thought you knew about self-help. This wickedly funny anti-motivation guide flips the personal development genre on its head, delivering deadpan "advice" on how to guarantee failure in life, work and absolutely everything else you touch. Written by veteran UK speaker Steve McDermott, it distils 47 and a half bite-sized "steps to lasting underachievement" that are so absurd, so recognisable, and so brilliantly wrong that readers can't help but quietly do the exact opposite - and start succeeding almost entirely by accident along the way, one chapter at a time.. About the Book. How to be a Complete and Utter F**k Up is billed as your ultimate anti life coach - and it means it. Rather than the usual gung-ho, over-enthused tone of typical self-improvement titles, this book offers tongue-in-cheek instructions on precisely what NOT to do if you want to build a successful, happy life. From never setting goals, to only taking advice from people you've never met (or who are dead), to steadfastly refusing to take responsibility for your own results, every single idea, story and strategy inside has been road-tested with thousands of real readers to guarantee maximum inadequacy. Delivered in short, laugh-out-loud chunks that are easy to dip in and out of, the book manages the rare trick of being genuinely hilarious while quietly sneaking in some of the sharpest personal-development wisdom around. Readers are explicitly warned not to try doing the opposite of what's suggested, since that could accidentally lead to real, lasting positive change. Behind the comedy is a serious message about goal-setting, resilience, responsibility and mindset, wrapped in a voice that never once lectures or preaches. It's the perfect antidote for anyone who has ever rolled their eyes at a shelf of earnest self-help titles, and a genuinely useful nudge towards better ha