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HOW TO TRY AGAIN: An Approachable Guide to Embracing Failure, Navigating Chaos, and Making Change THAT STICKS
by Steve Kamb

HOW TO TRY AGAIN: An Approachable Guide to Embracing Failure, Navigating Chaos, and Making Change THAT STICKS by Steve Kamb

Founder of Nerd Fitness Steve Kamb’s How To Try Again, a guide to help readers transform their lives by giving up more often, failing faster, and mastering the art of starting over

Some people wake up at 4AM, run 15 miles barefoot, take an ice bath, meditate for an hour, and then write the great American novel. How to Try Again is not for those people. It’s for the rest of us.

Transform your life by quitting unhealthy expectations.

Transform your life by failing compassionately.

Transform your life by trying again differently.

The false promises of optimized wellness and productivity are a recipe for personal blame and frustration. Fortunately, escaping this doom loop is Steve Kamb’s superpower.

Kamb has helped tens of millions make sustainable progress, even when life happens. Blending empathy, humor, and REAL advice, How to Try Again will help you navigate everyday chaos, restart without guilt, and make change that sticks.

All while being delightfully, forgivably human.

STEVE KAMB is an author and the creator and Chief Connection Officer of NerdFitness.com. Since 2009, he’s helped busy people get stronger, live healthier, and build heroic habits, publishing a thousand articles backed by scientific research and full of nerdy references. Nerd Fitness has helped over 15,000 clients level up their lives. Kamb writes a weekly newsletter at SteveKamb.com which is read by 100,000+ super humans. He’s guest lectured at Google, Facebook, and Vanderbilt University. He currently resides in Nashville, TN, where he plays golf decently and music poorly.

Rights have already sold to Hachette Pratique in France, Alpha Test in Italy, Global Group Holdings in Taiwan, and Pan Macmillan in the UK!

Praise for How to Try Again:

“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 for making the next attempt stick.”—MARK MANSON #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F***

“Insightful, helpful, funny, wise. Whether you’re 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

“Lasting change isn’t about forcing yourself to try harder—it’s about changing what you believe will happen next. How to Try Again shows why setbacks don’t 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

“This book is helpful, vulnerable, and inspiring. If you’re 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, behavioral researcher and bestselling author of Cues and Captivate