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Scott Adams had an interesting way of looking at success. He went against a few commonly accepted methods of achieving success and offered his own methods. Some of his most notable proclamations include that passion isn't helpful. He claims that passion does not last and that if a business venture or any idea succeeds, he tended to have more passion for the idea. If the venture started failing, that passion slowly turns into frustration and eventually the individual quits whatever they are attempting. The bank that Adams used to work at held the same philosophy. They would give out loans to start businesses to individuals that had no passion for their work and that were opening the types of businesses that really didn't require a whole lot of passion, like dry cleaning. But when an individual walked in with an idea like a sports store because they had loved sports their entire life, Adams, alongside the rest of the bank employees, was taught to not lend that person any money because they were a lot more likely to fail. Adams also claimed that goals were for losers. He said that until a goal is reached, if it is ever reached, a person is always in perpetual failure, and once that goal is reached the person does not have any more motivation and they don't know what to do next but restart the cycle. He suggested that people followed a system rather than a set of goals.