How to Try Again: An Approachable Guide to Navigating Chaos and Making Change THAT STICKS

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Some people wake up at 4 AM, run fifteen miles barefoot, and then meditate in an ice bath.

THIS BOOK IS FOR THE REST OF US.

Steve Kamb's How To Try Again is an approachable guide to help readers transform their lives by giving up more often, failing faster, and mastering the art of starting over.

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 the author of How to Try Again (St. Martin’s Press) and Level Up Your Life (Rodale). He’s also the founder of Nerd Fitness, a worldwide community of nerds leveling up their lives. Since 2009, he’s helped busy people get stronger, live healthier, and build heroic habits. He’s published a thousand articles backed by scientific research and full of nerdy references that have been read by tens of millions.

Kamb writes a weekly "Level Up with Steve Kamb" newsletter read by more than 100,000 super humans. He’s given talks at some of the world’s biggest companies and guest lectured at Vanderbilt University. He currently resides in Nashville, TN, where he plays golf decently and music poorly.

“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*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 don’t go as planned. This big-hearted book is packed with stories and humor that will stay with you long after you’ve turned the last page."
– DAVID EPSTEIN, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Range and The Sports Gene

“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

"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.

"From the founder of Nerd Fitness comes a refreshingly honest guide to embracing failure, letting go of impossible expectations, and learning how to start over with compassion and resilience." - The Harvard Coop

"Enlivened with plenty of personal anecdotes and a solid dose of self-deprecating humor, it’s an upbeat invitation to start afresh."
– PUBLISHERS WEEKLY