How to Try Again: An Approachable Guide to 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, drink unicorn tears, 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.

In other words, humans.

Humans who are desperate for hope. Unfortunately, they’re sold false promises of optimized wellness and unlimited productivity. Predictably, when these life hacks fail the result is personal blame and guilt.

Fortunately, breaking free from this madness is Steve Kamb’s super power.

For the past 16 years, Kamb has helped tens of millions of readers make positive changes through his advice at NerdFitness.

Kamb is fortunate to call many of today’s biggest nonfiction authors his friends and colleagues. You might recognize his name from the pages of James Clear’s Atomic Habits or the back cover of Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F***. Which makes sense, as this book comfortably sits at the intersection of those two juggernauts: full of empathetic humor, relatable stories, and practical guidance for making change.

How to Try Again will help readers forgive themselves faster, fail more enjoyably, restart differently, and finally reach their goals while staying delightfully, infallibly human.

Kindle Edition

Expected publication May 12, 2026

About the author

Many people believe that Steve Kamb was created in a laboratory in the 1940s as part of a top-secret government program to fight the Nazis. Those people are wrong; that was Steve Rogers, and he became Captain America. But close enough. Steve Kamb was born on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, raised by two loving parents and a Nintendo Entertainment System. When he wasn't getting lost in video games, he spent his childhood playing tennis baseball in the streets, building tree forts in the backyard, having Nerf wars in the basement, and participating in neighborhood-wide games of capture the flag.

Upon graduating from Vanderbilt University in 2006, he began developing the idea for a website to help beginners get healthy and avoid all of the usual pitfalls. Years later, that site became NerdFitness.com, a now-worldwide fitness community dedicated to helping nerds, desk jockeys, and self-aware robots level up their lives.

While running his company from a coconut laptop, Steve has adventured all over the world, explored the ruins of Machu Picchu, dived with sharks on the Great Barrier Reef, and lived like James Bond in Monte Carlo. He has guest lectured at Google, Google Dublin, Facebook, TEDxEmory, and regularly speaks at Vanderbilt University.

He recently moved from Nashville, Tennessee, to New York City to continue his quest of becoming Captain America. He spends his free time picking up heavy things, singing off-key, gaming, and playing music as loudly as possible. He hopes to one day own an island in the Caribbean, be part of a heist, and reach level 50 in the Game of Life.