A Hard Kick in the Nuts
What I've Learned from a Lifetime of Terrible Decisions
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4.6 • 13 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Stephen "Steve-O" Glover—social media icon, comedy-touring stalwart, and star of Jackass—delivers a hilarious and practical guide to recovery, relationships, career, and how to keep thriving long after you should be dead.
Steve-O is best known for his wildly dangerous, foolish, painful, embarrassing, and sometimes death-defying stunts. At age 48, however, he faces his greatest challenge yet: getting older. A Hard Kick in the Nuts: What I’ve Learned from a Lifetime of Terrible Decisions is a captivating exploration of life and how to live it by an individual who has already lived way more than a lifetime’s worth of extreme experiences. Steve-O grapples with the right balance between maturity and staying true to yourself, not repeating your “greatest hits,” maintaining sobriety and a healthy regimen, avoiding selfishness, and finding the right partner for life.
Having built a gargantuan and loyal social media following while establishing a successful stand-up career—all after a couple of decades of dubious behavior—Steve-O is proof that anyone can find meaning and fulfillment in life, no matter what path they choose. Packed with self-deprecating wit and gruelingly earned wisdom, A Hard Kick in the Nuts will reverberate with readers everywhere who have lived a lot (sometimes too much) and are now wondering how to approach the years to come. Or maybe just need some good motivation to get out of bed tomorrow. One of many tips: Be your own harshest critic, then cut yourself a break, and enjoy this book.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Renowned Jackass stuntman and comedian Glover outlines the secrets to a fulfilling life in this surprisingly introspective follow-up to his debut memoir Professional Idiot. Drawing on his personal experiences—including, but not limited to, death-defying stunts like hitting a ramp on a horse-pulled wakeboard, and making snow angels in flaming rocket fuel—Glover explores the creation of meaning in life and how to nourish it. Alongside the perilous feats of his past, Glover dives into more intimate anecdotes from his life, detailing his past relationships, poor financial investments, awkward romantic escapades, and, most notably, his winding—at times vicious—path into stand-up comedy, plus many more challenges. From reckoning with aging and learning the benefits of discipline to taking up Vedic meditation and finding joy in color-coded calendars, Glover uses the wisdom he's gained from his freewheeling life to urge readers to embrace a "willingness to zig and zag" and to accept that occasional failures are part and parcel with finding happiness. While one might not expect to find wisdom in a hilarious tale about belly-flopping into a urine-filled kiddie pool, Glover is a veritable expert at learning "some valuable shit from lifetime of terrible decisions." Dick jokes aside, this is full of heart and hard-won insight.
