A Hard Kick in the Nuts: What I've Learned from a Lifetime of Terrible Decisions

The longtime star of the Jackass franchise looks back at his winding career path and how to find the right balance between maturity and staying true to yourself.
The longtime star of the Jackass franchise looks back at his winding career path and how to find the right balance between maturity and staying true to yourself. 60,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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.
From Steve-O, the star of the multi-million-dollar Jackass franchise who is now a tremendously successful standup comedian and YouTube sensation, comes a hilarious, practical guide to growing up without growing old—addressing recovery, relationships, career, and how to keep living and thriving long after you should be dead.Steve-O, star of the multi-million-dollar Jackass franchise, is best known for his wildly dangerous and incredibly foolish, painful, embarrassing, and sometimes death-defying stunts. At age 47, however, he faces his greatest challenge yet: getting older. A Hard Kick in the Nuts: What I’ve Learned from a Lifetime of Terrible Decisionsis an inimitable guide through middle age by a man who has a lifetime of extreme experiences packed into what actually amounts to about half a lifetime. Having built a loyal social media following, a successful standup career, and a fulfilling long-term relationship, all after gaining fame from Jackass, Steve-O is proof that anyone can grow up without growing old. Hilariously filled with self-deprecating wit and practical advice, this guide to reinvention will resonate with readers everywhere who have lived a lot (sometimes too much) and are now wondering what to do with the second half of life.