If you have laser-like brain it's not always focused on the most productive things. If you want to play Halo: Reach all day, that's fine, but if you want to accomplish some other things, here are some ways to do that using your innate nerd gifts. Chris Hardwick More Quotes by Chris Hardwick More Quotes From Chris Hardwick No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist. Chris Hardwick famous-inspirational zero inspiring We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age. Chris Hardwick information management age I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people are unhappy and a lot people are anxious, it just feels like that's one view of the world. But you don't have to always focus on that view of the world. Chris Hardwick views people thinking When you don't take an aggressive role in shaping your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, you become a helpless passenger floating through the universe like a ghost ship, merely reacting to wherever it takes you. Chris Hardwick floating perception feelings If you're able to build from your falls you'll be unstoppable and damn near fearless. You see, every time you fall down and get back up, you add another piece of body armor to yourself. You learn what not to do, how to do better, and how to create comfort through practice. Chris Hardwick fearless practice fall All television is an advertisement - that's why it exists. It wasn't the art-form first and then the commerce - it was that they could put on entertainment long enough to distract people into looking at products. It's for focusing people on advertising and separating you from money in some way. Some people forget that. The side product is that we get some great eye candy. TV is the best it has ever been right now. I don't have a problem with that since it's what keep us employed. Chris Hardwick eye long art It's very easy to attack ourselves. Even comforting in its familiarity, but you must resist this urge at all costs. Dwelling on the past or your perceived flaws will do nothing but keep you under emotional house arrest and hamper your progress. Commit yourself to growth and reward yourself with kindness for choosing to do so! Chris Hardwick emotional kindness past I do seem like the kind of guy who'd be obsessive about Rubik's Cubes. Chris Hardwick cubes guy kind I honestly think hipsters eat with their assholes because they consume everything wrong. Chris Hardwick hipster honestly thinking No matter what tricks you use or what decisions you make, go easy on yourself as someone who's on a never-ending quest for improvement. Chris Hardwick decisions-you-make quests use When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we get hyper-analytical about things. Chris Hardwick comedian realizing long I'm fascinated by people's process. Everyone's process is a little bit different, and just to see the different paths that people take to get where they are is really interesting to me. Chris Hardwick different people interesting I don't know if I'm a Twitter addict. That seems kind of harsh. I would say it's more that I'm seriously involved. That it's a long-term relationship - like a girlfriend, which my actual girlfriend loves to hear. Chris Hardwick girlfriend kind long Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down. Chris Hardwick balls energy sports Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing. Chris Hardwick lucky watches people If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for. Chris Hardwick passion careers winning You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a hard number to achieve, then 10,000 people are listening, and you can build a community, and literally change the world just recording into a microphone. Chris Hardwick community numbers people Just as someone who's been interested in radio and programming for so long, I can usually tell when an interviewer is doing a segment just to fill a programming slot. They ask questions, but they don't care about the answers. Chris Hardwick care answers long I think some of what makes it a good podcast is that it's organic. It doesn't feel forced. If we can say anything about ours, it's that we're not faking it at all. We're genuinely interested in the people that we're talking to. Chris Hardwick talking people thinking When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club, I brought D&D stuff to school, I had every game system you could imagine, I spent countless hours at arcades, computer camp, loud presence in the Latin Club. All that stuff. Chris Hardwick growing-up latin school
