Author & Nerd in Nashville. Created @nerdfitness. Helping people fail differently and try again. "How to Try Again" now available wherever books are sold

Nashville, TN
Joined January 2009
The book. The lesson.
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How to Try Again by Steve Kamb is a warm, witty rebuttal to toxic positivity and over-optimization. Like a pep talk from your best friend, it honestly tackles how hard change is and why setbacks don’t erase progress. Steve offers us four-step PACT framework to turn any failure into a data point for future success. 5 lessons from the book:
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Steve Kamb retweeted
New book out today on what to do when things don’t go as planned I recommend it! @SteveKamb shares some intensely personal revelations about things that didn’t go as he thought they would If you’re pushing the limits of anything, failure is inevitable. What do you do next?
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Props to @SteveKamb for adding the raw and real parts of his life to his new book, “How to Try Again.”
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Can't stop thinking about this line of poetry from Roger S. Keyes: "He says keep changing, you just get more who you really are." This poem was written about the Japanese artist Hokusai, most famous for his woodblock print, "The Great Wave":
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Watching any Studio Ghibli doc is an adventure. At some point, in between the discussion around his next children's cartoon, Miyazaki will drop some offhanded comment that hits you in the heart.
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Will Durant wrote this in the 1970s:
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“YES CHEF” he exclaimed while sliding the frozen chicken tikka samosas from Trader Joe’s into the microwave.
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Just saw Ballerina: From the World of John Wick: Pretty solid use of all the classic tropes: Chekov’s gun Chekov’s grenade belt Chekov’s kitchen knives Chekov’s samurai sword Chekov’s landmine Chekov’s ice skates Chekov’s flame thrower Chekov’s Baba Yaga Etc.
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I am going to keep saying this: literally every form of weight loss, every single one of them, *requires you to do a thing for the rest of your life*.
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3 levels of success: Level 1: empty calendar Level 2: packed calendar Level 3: empty calendar
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Marketing division of shoe company: "Hey, this Steve guy bought a pair of shoes yesterday. How many marketing emails do you think he wants today? At least 4 right? Yeah, he'll love that."
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2 RULES FOR NAVIGATING SOCIAL MEDIA: Brandolini's Law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it." Hitchens's Razor: "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."
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Alarming news: Yesterday I went for a walk, ate a balanced dinner, read a book, and went to bed at a reasonable hour instead of scrolling on my phone. Today, I feel like I have super powers. It works. Ugh.
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