How to Try Again is a fun rebuttal to toxic positivity and a world full of over-optimized morning routines. Steve Kamb tells the truth: humans are weird and change is hard. Honest, funny, and genuinely useful Mark Manson, bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
How to Try Again is like a warm, insightful pep talk from your best friend. Kamb pushes back against unrealistic optimization culture and offers humane, practical tools for navigating life when things dont go as planned. This big-hearted book is packed with stories and humour that will stay with you long after youve turned the last page David Epstein, number one New York Times bestselling author of Range and The Sports Gene
The personal development book for people who dont have time for personal development.
Some people wake up at 4 a.m., run 15 miles barefoot and have an ice bath. This book is for the rest of us.
Lets start with the good news: despite what your brain might tell you, you are not a failure. You are a human who has failed at something. Life is messy, unexpected and can surprise us at the worst possible time.
In How to Try Again, Steve Kamb gives you permission to be imperfect and ditch the tough love (which doesnt work) and still get things done. Drawing from his seventeen years of experience helping busy people transform their lives at NerdFitness.com, Kamb seamlessly blends philosophy, psychology, real-life stories and hilarious insights from pop culture to help you confidently navigate lifes chaos.
In this practical and humorous guide, youll learn how to:
Embrace failure as the first step, not the last. Escape the Doom Loop and finally break free. Strategically tread water when overwhelmed. Pick the right thing to try next and follow through.
This book isn't for the superhuman few; its for anyone who has struggled with consistency and has felt like theyre never going to be able to change. The overworked parents, burned-out employees and frustrated people who cant seem to make progress.
Its time to stop feeling less than and start making changes that stick without the guilt.
In a culture obsessed with optimization, failure often feels like the end of the story. In How to Try Again, Steve Kamb reframes failure as an invitation to pause and experiment. This is a compassionate and deeply practical guide to navigating failure with curiosity Anne-Laure Le Cunff, neuroscientist and bestselling author of Tiny Experiments
Insightful, helpful, funny, wise. Whether youre pursuing an improvement in your day-to-day life, building the next big thing or weathering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Steve Kamb is a brilliant guide Josh Kaufman, bestselling author of The Personal MBA and The First 20 Hours
How to Try Again shows why setbacks dont erase progress, and how the stories we tell ourselves after failure determine whether we recover or retreat. This book is a practical guide to rebuilding momentum by reshaping expectations, restoring agency and making trying again feel possible Nir Eyal, bestselling author of Beyond Belief and Indistractable
How to Try Again is helpful, vulnerable and inspiring. If youre in the midst of a pivot, a change or a plateau, this book is for you and Steve Kamb is your guide Vanessa Van Edwards, behavioural researcher and bestselling author of Captivate and Cues
