The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)
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if it sucks at first, you’ll get better. And it may not! It might be nine kinds o’ radtacular right off the bat!
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As a subclass of humans Nerds are excruciatingly critical.
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After several hours or a night of torturing yourself, you reach out to the person to apologize for the comment. They usually respond with a “Oh, I didn’t take it that way! No problem!”
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First off, you’re most likely not a dick and unless you overtly insult someone’s grandmother you probably didn’t come off the way you think you did. Second, if you are genuinely committed to being more comfortable with who you are, being worried at every turn what people think about you won’t matter. Last, and most crucial, I realized that the second you’re not standing in front of someone, they’re not thinking about you anymore.
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Your concern over how someone took your probably benign comment is a very self-centered point of view.
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The good news is, the overwhelming chance is that that person is just as self-centered and is probably thinking abou...
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I’m a narcissistic assjob who clearly has untamably huge balls for even daring to write a book of this nature.
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you could write a book in about three and a half months writing five hundred words a day on weekdays.
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You deserve every wonderful thing you want in this life.
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Halfway through the burrito, he’d get depressed because he knew it would soon be over. One day he decided to “enjoy the burrito”—in other words, live in the present and appreciate something good while it was happening.
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a science show that Wired magazine was producing for PBS.
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Wired Science
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The show only lasted ten episodes and remnants of it still populate the far corners of the Internet.
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I thank you! You finished the whole book! Even the last jerk-offy part where I congratulate the shit out of myself! Just for that, give yourself additional 100 XP and a bunch of high-fives!!! PS—You’re nice!
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