Get Ready

A Champion’s Guide to Preparing for the Moments That Matter

By: Buzzy Cohen

Narrated by: Buzzy Cohen

Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

Beloved Jeopardy! champ Buzzy Cohen reveals the eccentric yet effective training method he developed to prep for the show, and empowers listeners to apply these techniques to train for their own challenges in this one-of-a-kind Audible Original. 

Tens of thousands of people take the online qualification exam for Jeopardy! every year, and only 0.4% of these hopefuls will appear on the show. But even after a nine-game winning streak and a victory in the Tournament of Champions, fan favorite Buzzy Cohen maintains that he wasn’t actually the smartest contestant in the bunch - he just “trained smarter" than his competitors with his quirky strategies and obsessive techniques, from wearing suits every day to studying while hanging from a chin-up bar. Once he realized how much could be accomplished with great preparation, he became a prep fanatic - testing his theories on everything from deadlifting to tap dancing. 

Here, Buzzy draws on his own experience as well as interviews with other top performers (from musicians and federal prosecutors to glassblowers and competitive coffee brewers) to teach listeners how the unique preparation method he developed can help them train for high-pressure performance situations in their own lives: interviews, exams, professional presentations, speeches, physical challenges, and more. 

In Get Ready, Buzzy has created a step-by-step guide to effective prep, proving it’s not innate talent or genetics that creates champions, but the best training. Are you ready to get ready?

©2019 Buzzy Cohen (P)2019 Audible Originals, LLC.

Smart practical guide to a variety of preparation

This is a funny and smart guide to preparing for everything. I thought I was pretty squared away begore reading it, but now I'm more thoughtful and confident in preparation than ever. I found many practical ideas to improve how I anticipate upcoming events, whether it's a trip or a meeting. Buzzy does a great job making a mundane topic interesting. I highly recommend.

Double Threat

I was hoping this book would give me some truly helpful guidance in the art of preparing for real-life challenges, or at least an enjoyable five hours hanging out with the zippy personality that made Buzzy such a standout on Jeopardy! As it happens, I got both. What could have been just a throwaway book by a niche celebrity turns out to be a solid, useful manual, full of practical info that goes down easy thanks to Buzzy's stylings. It's one thing to know a lot of facts and be fast on the buzzer — it's another to suss out how to work smarter so as to be better prepared than your competitors, then distill what you've learned into lessons that are usable in any field. Thanks, Buzzy!

solid piece of work

Easy to follow and natural to employ, "Get Ready" was like having my own personal improvement coach. It is a testament to the book's strength that the concepts that Buzzy discusses and advocates for seem like things you knew all along, but just needed someone to vocalize in order for you to access.

Great motivation and insight

Accessible story, well-structured, and helped me shift my prep approach for comprehensive exams! thanks, Buzzy!

Practical advice, entertaining delivery

I am pleasantly surprised at how relevant, helpful, and enjoyable this book has been for me as a middle aged, exhausted, working mom (especially during a pandemic)! Buzzy’s tips have helped me refocus my working hours and rethink how to see the best results in my side interests.

Here's How to Prepare for *Anything*

Are you about to interview for a job? Give a best man speech? Take the LSAT? Play jazz? Blow glass? Buzzy Cohen is here to help you change "from a limp noodle to a firecracker" when the pressure's on.

This is a highly useful guide to the practice of practice: How to be ready not just when things go well, but when you trip over a shoelace on your way to the piano. Buzzy offers stress-busting tips from his Jeopardy! prep sessions -- such as having questions fired at him while he hangs from a chin-up bar -- and goes beyond the game show stage to the classroom, boardroom and even the courtroom. (He shares prep wisdom from federal prosecutor Andrew Goldstein and standup comedian Michelle Williams, among others.)

Along the way he dishes up details on how dress suits became his secret weapon, how switching pencils helped him perform better on school tests, and why skateboarders are better prepared for failure than the rest of us. It's all about doing your best, but there's a deeper message about life: "Someone who's well prepared tends to have more fun." Amen! Warmly recommended.

Excellent actionable advice

Loving the storytelling! I now have more confidence in attacking and visualizing and preparing for my goals.

Useful, Interesting & Fun!

Listening to "Get Ready" was a useful exercise that helped me rethink my approach to my team's performance at work. I was inspired by Buzzy's actionable preparation framework & tactics and -- since listening -- have begun actively applying what I've learned.

Buzzy's storytelling offers an insightful glimpse into the mind of preparation experts from a variety of fields. While the audiobook is filled with Buzzy's signature irreverence, nerdiness and trivia, it doesn't detract from it's accessibility and utility.

And for those fans of Buzzy from his time on Jeopardy!, there are plenty of interesting behind the scenes tidbits and fun facts about the show, some of its most popular contestants and Buzzy's legendary appearances on the show.

Regardless of what you're preparing for, "Get Ready" is a fun, easy listen that will leave you feeling equipped to prepare for any challenge or task you're facing.

So ready to get ready!

Such a fun book to listen to with so many easy to apply strategies. Highly recommend this book to all!

A fun and helpful listen!

Loved getting to hear some fun anecdotes and practical info from our favorite jeopardy contestant, the man behind the suits, Buzzy Cohen.