Am I a nerd? Um yes! Honestly I have no issues with this label. I mean come on….I own over 300 My Little Ponies, Geek out over Tokidoki characters, and still believe that FF7 is the most awesome game ever. In addition I quote Harry Potter, LOTR, Doctor Who and various other randoms all the time. However I hate Math. Hate it. Numbers are not my friends. Words=Good and Numbers=Bad. However even minus the math love I am a nerd. Now here is a little bit of awesomeness that I want to share with you!
“The Nerdist Way” by Chris Hardwick is a super amazing book for anyone who suspects that they may in fact be a nerd. It is also an amazing book for those of us that over analyze…everything. Plus it is hilarious, which is always a bonus.Now the book is basically a guide or big book of suggestions if you prefer that is meant to help you use your nerdy brain to better help you in life instead of letting it keep you stuck in the same over analyzed and in my own personal case-paralyzed state. I tend to have issues making decisions for fear that I will make the wrong one, this is an entire section in the book and I cannot tell you how much better I felt knowing that other people out there deal with this. I am not the only person who can stare at Netflix for hours and watch nothing because I cannot commit! Huzzah!
One
of my favorite parts is something that has been said before but for
some reason seems a lot more manageable when Chris talks about it.
“Start the Process” is basically the idea that you need to just start
something. Stop stressing about if it is good enough or if it is perfect
BEFORE YOU EVEN WRITE A WORD! (as a writer this is my big issue, I
label things as “crappy” before I even put them on paper and therefore a
lot of things don’t get written and I have empty notebooks laying
around that annoy the fiancé a bit) You need to start the process and
get things going. So what if the first draft sucks? That is why it is
the “first” draft and not the final. No one ever has to see the first
draft but you if you so choose. So go ahead and write crappy things, in
fact just enjoy the fact that you can come up with the worst ideas ever!
(After all would we have gems like Sharktopus if we didn’t have people
that were okay with things that were ridiculous?) Own the awesomeness of
your work whether it is in fact awesome or is in fact a complete mess.
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