{"id":56,"date":"2012-03-07T11:35:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T11:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kadyellebee.com\/wp\/2012\/03\/07\/review_of_the_nerdist_way\/"},"modified":"2012-03-07T11:35:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T11:35:03","slug":"review_of_the_nerdist_way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kadyellebee.com\/kdlb\/2012\/03\/review_of_the_nerdist_way\/","title":{"rendered":"review of The Nerdist Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book resonated with me so much that I couldn&#8217;t just review it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/\">goodreads<\/a>, I wanted to spotlight it here!<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right; padding-left: 10px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=loveproductions&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=0425243540\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>I was introduced to Chris Hardwick by searching for podcasts interviews with Wil Wheaton (read his <a href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.typepad.com\/\">blog<\/a>!) &#8211; later to find out they are great friends in real life!&nbsp; Chris runs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdist.com\/\">Nerdist.com<\/a> and&nbsp; has a terrific podcast, as well as a recurring series on BBCA. After listening to quite a few eps of his podcast, we found his book. It was a perfect thing to read after Wil&#8217;s books.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0425243540\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=loveproductions&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0425243540\">The Nerdist Way<\/a> is not just an audiobiography of a geeky person, it is a self-help book!&nbsp;&nbsp; Because nerds tend to be very detail oriented and enjoy controlling their own destiny, this makes sense that a self-help book could focus specifically on how people like me could improve themselves.&nbsp; The book is divided into 3 main sections: Mind, Body, and Time.&nbsp; Throughout the chapters, the reader is encouraged to write a &#8220;character tome&#8221;, inspired by D&amp;D game design and with bars to fill in as you reach your goals like a video game.&nbsp; Questions throughout lead you to fill out your &#8220;tome&#8221; are called charactercizes, cleverly enough.  There are some reader-submitted tomes on the companion website, <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdist.com\/nerdistway\/\">nerdist.com\/nerdistway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I relate to Chris&#8217;s personality so very much.&nbsp; Sometimes when we were reading, I actually thought my husband was making up the examples because they were things I had actually done. For example, Chris got stuck on a web design for months because he couldn&#8217;t choose between #666666 and #999999 as the background color.&nbsp; HA!&nbsp; And then the kicker &#8211; a section titled &#8220;Bread crumb your life with music&#8221; starts with this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, yeah, look at my iTunes under the bday mixes \ud83d\ude09&nbsp; So my guess is that if I were to compare my personality type with his, we would be very similar!<\/p>\n<p>Funny word definition time &#8211; getting what you want can be stressful == <strong>Sustress<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of geeky antidotes throughout, including some history and plans for the Nerdist network.&nbsp; My eyes teared up hearing the &#8220;Enjoy Your Burrito&#8221; story with Jonah Ray.&nbsp; Oh, and an open letter from Doc Brown to Marty McFly was hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>I should warn you that there is swearing and self-deprecating humor throughout the book in case you are sensitive to that.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>If you are geeky and excited about developing yourself to the next level, you should read this book.&nbsp; Make a plan along with Chris and improve your mind, body, and time management.&nbsp; I think that my friends with success on the brain (small business owners, podcasters, etc) would get a lot out of The Nerdist Way.&nbsp; And while you are at it, follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nerdist\">@nerdist<\/a> on twitter and download a few episodes of the Nerdist <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/the-nerdist\/id355187485\">podcast<\/a> to make you laugh out loud!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book resonated with me so much that I couldn&#8217;t just review it on goodreads, I wanted to spotlight it here! 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