"The best way to mess up your life is not be born in the first place." So begins Dominique Nogue's hilarious little guide to completely messing up your life. A practical guide, that at the same time offers full philosophical grounds for the failed life.
(1) Understanding failure (some people have an innate ability)
(2) Obstacles to achieving it
(3) Making failure live up to its name
(4) Some arguments for success and their refutation
(5) More arguments in favor of success
(6) Basic principles
(7) More basic principles
(8) Tips for a complete failure
(9) Examples, by profession
(10) Exercises in failure
(11) A few more exercises for just before you die