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Pecker Gates has some famous advice: "Be overnice to nerds. Chances are you'll terminate up working for one." In many means, he'due south right: nerds brand the world run, fifty-fifty if they (kindly) stop short of earth domination. A nerd is someone who is always curious and always learning, especially (though not exclusively) well-nigh intellectual pursuits. Being a nerd can be fun merely if information technology suits y'all, merely whatever your definition of a nerd is, read on for tips on how to become one.

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   Know the difference between a nerd, a geek, and a dork. At that place may be meaning overlap between the three, just if anyone would care about the subtle distinctions, information technology would be a nerd.

   • A nerd is thought to exist a highly intelligent person who has a singular passion about an academic pursuit. They tend to exist either socially inept or asocial.
   • A geek is thought to be an individual who is ever interested in a niche activity or subject, merely who is not necessarily academically inclined nor as asocial every bit the nerd.
   • A dork is thought to be slightly sillier and not at all asocial, but maybe not interested in a niche or academic pursuit.

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   Be weird. In other words, act the but way y'all know how, in a style all your own. Nerds are renowned for being weird because they are, each in their own way, quite unique. Live your life like it'south entirely your ain, like you are the main of your own ship. By just beingness yourself and embracing your own eccentricities, you're already being weird. If you're looking for inspiration, read about some famous nerds in history. Here are three short vignettes of people, considered "nerds," who did entirely what they wanted:

   • Isaac Newton is a bully example. He fabricated many discoveries including the reflector telescope, differential and integral calculus, Laws of Motility and Gravitation, and colors of light. He was usually busy with his enquiry work. He didn't talk much, and merely slept about three hours a nighttime. (He probably should accept seen a doc most that.)
   • Katherine Johnson worked for NASA as a "human being estimator." Her calculations were so authentic that she was asked to double-check the work of the actual computers.^[ane] She co-authored 26 scientific papers.
   • Alan Turing is another famous nerd. Half-hero, one-half-scapegoat, Turing is credited with helping to crack the Nazi Enigma codes at the stop of Earth War Two, also as playing an instrumental office in developing the get-go computers of the 20th century.^[2] Despite his achievements, he was later prosecuted by the British authorities for having a boyfriend and was forced to take estrogen injections to "neutralize his libido."^[3] Turing died of suicide not long after the trial.

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   Find a subject or subjects that y'all tin immerse yourself in. Information technology doesn't need to be science-related, although researchers are finding that increasingly numbers of autistic individuals (who often qualify as nerdy) are drawn to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM majors).^[4] Learn every bit much every bit you tin can about the subjects you lot are interested in, and safeguard that knowledge so that you can use it effectively after.

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   Question, constantly. Many nerds are defined past their power — some say addiction — to question the information they receive until they are satisfied about its authenticity or understand the logic behind it. To exist a nerd, you must be on an insatiable quest for knowledge. To exist on an insatiable quest for cognition, yous must constantly question the quality, source, and utility of information you receive.

   • Don't trust information just because it comes from an authority figure. Nerds sympathise that figures of say-so can sometimes get away with misleading or falsified information simply considering of their power. Be willing to fact-bank check, especially if something seems off or too convenient.
   • Get to the root of things. A nerd will empathise a question within and out. A nerd volition not rely on memorized information, simply rather on agreement a concept. If a nerd asks the question "Why is the sky bluish?" and is given the reply, "Because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red lite," ^[5] her adjacent question will inevitably be: "Why do molecules in the air scatter blueish lite from the sun more than they besprinkle red light?" they volition continue the line of questioning until the reply relates to something they already understand completely.

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   Examine the details. The devil may be in the details, just that doesn't mean you tin't embrace them. (That was Vladimir Nabokov's communication to his students.^[6] ) The nerd may adopt physical details over generalizing statements because details can be cross-checked by reality more hands than generalities can. The nerd cares more about beingness right than appearing smart, so he grabs onto details as a way of investigating reality.

   • Many nerds gravitate towards sci, tech, eng, math, i.e.: Stalk majors: STEMs bargain manifestly in facts and systems observable in nature, whereas many other more subjective disciplines lack the objective, fact-checking component.
   • Other nerds prefer more than theoretical fields, such as abstract fields or the humanities. These also have room for analysis and discussion.

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   Become toward the grayness areas. No, this is not an obscure fashion directive; it'south a mode of thinking. Nerds tend to come across grey areas where others run into black and white. This is because nerds are good at examining pros and cons, comparison and contrasts, theses and rebuttals. They devalue their own stance and focus on the "quantifiable" facts. Sometimes, this leaves them looking like occupational vacillators, constantly seesawing back and forth between "sides" of an argument (arguing with themselves, it may seem). In fact, they are gathering information and waiting for pre-aligned, set "opinion" (decision) to striking them with the force of facts, instead of forming an opinion (hypothesis) that one begins justifying past supporting facts.

   • While some areas are black and white (e.g. questions of basic science or respecting human rights), many areas aren't then simple. There may be exceptions, nuances, and qualifications. Look for those and see what you tin can learn from them.
   • At that place are several scientific/philosophical theories that nerds who love the greyness area reference. It might exist helpful to get familiar with merely a few of them:
     • Thomas Kuhn's image shifts: Periods of "normal science" are interrupted by periods of "revolutionary science," called paradigm shifts that are relentlessly discussed and expounded (defined, diagrammed, flow-charted, mapped, extrapolated, spanning and forming a new amalgam, a new reality...). For STEMs adherents paradigm shifts are entirely new, focuses of scientific thinking and concentration.^[7]
     • Kurt Gödel's incompleteness: It'southward impossible to institute consistency and completeness within formal logical systems. In other words, all consistent axiomatic formulations of number theory include propositions/assumptions that are undecidable (primal elements of math include the undefined point, line, plain and space which are withal bases to define large fields of mathematics).^[8]

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   Ask the experts. If you know someone who is experienced in a certain field, ask them what they know. Pose questions, listen closely to their answers, and speak upwards if you lot don't empathize yet, or if y'all disagree with them.

   • Remember, knowledge can come from surprising sources! Anybody is skillful at something. Practise intellectual humility and approach each person equally if they take something new to teach you.
   • If yous disagree with an good, do and then with respect and humility. It's possible they've heard your statement many times before and tin can tell you exactly how wrong it is.

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   Lose the ideas of genius and talent. Being intelligent doesn't mean knowing everything; it means knowing things and existence eager to learn more. Become comfortable with asking questions and beingness wrong. The quest for knowledge includes wrong turns and realizing that you don't know. Focus less on "What exercise I know?" and more on "What can I learn?"

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   Lose yourself in your passion. Nerds get the reputation for being in the clouds half the time because their minds are wandering, probing distant places or circuitous correlations and equations. For this reason, don't be afraid to be aristocratic, if that'southward who y'all are. Lose yourself in the intellectual areas that make yous happy and help yous feel continued to the globe, even if it means you lot seem disconnected by the "depth" and "displacement" involved in your internalizing a singular passion.

   • Your passion could be anything, from cryptology to philosophy to Norse mythology to philately. Whatsoever it is, go far a boom!
   • Set short- and long-term goals for yourself. The sooner yous set yourself some goals (mayhap in an outline of variable and constant parameters, a rubric, or a protocol), the easier it will be to attain them. Setting absorbing goals has the benefit of being especially nerdy!

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   Don't be agape to get beyond the ordinary. Think differently. Don't exist agape to tackle an idea or activity that isn't popular. (Realize that you lot may non have a dandy grasp of what is popular and what isn't in the first identify. No matter!)

   • If you lot establish that lining your car antenna with aluminum foil gives you better reception on the AM stations in your auto, then go for it. A nerd does not care how their car looks if the radio station is playing properly.
   • If yous advise to test all your friends for an antibody not withal known to science, then go for it (with your friends' consent). A nerd does not care whether the globe doubts their methods and challenges their findings.
   • If yous are interested in reckoner viruses and desire to tell all your friends what a trojan is, then go for it! A lot of nerds like to learn about things that seem pointless to others.

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   Always keep learning. A nerd is on a constant quest for noesis. A nerd doesn't always care whether the data they receive has whatsoever utility. The mere fact that it'south uncomplicated, profound, or counter-intuitive is plenty to make it cool.

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   Read voraciously. Read everything in your expanse(s) of interests that yous can get your hands on, including reference books and encyclopedias. Read and watch the news enough everyday to be informed near what'due south going on across your community. Read fiction books, too, because they can help build your vocabulary and gives you a good sense of spelling. Read things that you like, but your parents don't corroborate of.

   • Take regular trips to the library. If you can't become physically, attempt checking out e-books.
   • Read a variety of nonfiction and fiction books. Nonfiction teaches yous new things. Fiction teaches y'all new perspectives. (Look for books about people who are different from you, such equally people of different cultures, races, or disabilities. Also check out books that tackle major social problems.)
   • Study related languages. Try to pick upward a linguistic communication but for kicks; or maybe because a subject your learning about has original sources in the native tongue. Experiment with web-based translation machines. If y'all feel that learning a language is too hard, and so attempt and larn Sus scrofa Latin. Grunter Latin has a prepare of rules to go by in order to speak it, so information technology is very easy to learn.
     • Extra cred goes to nerds who study a "dead" or fictional language, such every bit Cuman, Eyak, and Karankawa, or Elvish, Dothraki, or Klingon.^{[9] [ten]} Dead or fictional languages are exquisitely nerdy.
   • Note that informative reading doesn't have to mean slogging through a dry, unbearable textbook. For an entertaining and informative read, try the funny physics archetype Surely You lot're Joking, Mr. Feynman or The Feynman Lectures, any of Brian Greene'south very pop and accessible science bestsellers, or well-researched historical fiction like I, Claudius (whose unlikely hero survives a particularly savage menses in the Roman Empire).

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   Pay attending in school. Effort to go a seat where you can clearly hear, encounter the teacher and chalkboard, and pay attending. A proficient goal to set for yourself is to endeavor getting mostly As in everything yous do at school, including homework. Take notes, report for that test, and focus. Most of all, come to school ready to larn and try not to worry virtually the social scene too much if information technology'due south uninteresting or uncomfortable.

   • Attempt some extracurricular activities, such as robotics or math club, chess, or drama. Try to balance your extracurriculars so that they don't bring your grades down.
   • Ask a lot of questions in class. In that location is no such affair as a stupid question, retrieve? The only stupid question is the question you didn't ask.
   • Exercise research above and across what is taught in class. YouTube channels such as Khan Academy, Crash Grade, Vsauce, Numberphile, CGP Grey to proper name a few, offering the opportunity to get ahead at the convenience and enjoyment of your estimator.
   • Don't be afraid to look into online learning or get a tutor if you lot're struggling with a certain field of study. Everyone has sure subjects that don't come up easily to them. Your schoolhouse may offer free tutoring resources.

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   Channel any difficult feelings you lot may have into your passions. Nerds deal with their acrimony and heartbreak in a productive style: they remember very carefully and logically about what to practice or say, or amend changes to their contend presentation before they lash out at other people. Don't cut yourself downwards. What other people say about you isn't necessarily who y'all are. Simply don't pay attending to what they say about the way you are.

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   Take care of your trunk. Make sure you lot take proper care of your torso. Here are some things that help you lot stay precipitous:

   • Eat a good for you diet.
   • Found a regular sleep schedule. Aim for effectually 8+ hours to refresh your brain. Every bit a nerd, your encephalon is ane of your biggest assets in life, so you should have intendance of information technology.
   • Exercise regularly.
   • Castor your teeth. Regular tooth-brushing improves longevity and reduces a surprising amount of health risks.
   • Maintain skillful hygiene.
   • It's a common stereotype for nerds to take multiple allergies or health issues. If y'all do take a specific allergy or wellness effect, stay on meridian of all of your medications. For example, if you lot have asthma, brand sure yous have your inhaler with you lot at all times in example of an attack.

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   Exist an optimist. You're a nerd and you know it. Simply you're also willing to exist optimistic. Y'all like who y'all are, even if it doesn't seem like very many other people exercise. (That'south okay, they simply don't understand you.) The friends that you do take are good people who make you feel like you want to exist alive.

   • It may non always be piece of cake. Life can be tough, but you tin can exist equally tough. Nerds are resilient in challenging situations, willing to get upwards and keep going despite existence knocked down.
   • If optimism feels impossible, that'south a sign of a problem. A nerd doesn't go along trying the same things if information technology's clear they aren't working. Find ways to modify your life to be more advantageous to your success and well-beingness. Consult a advisor or doctor if needed; they are experts, afterward all.

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   Looking similar a nerd can help other nerds place y'all. You lot shouldn't have to worry too much near your way sense, because a nerd prizes condolement over style, so if it and so happens that you honey wearing sweatpants, then encompass information technology!

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   Consider practicality. Pull long hair back out of your face. Wear clothes that don't itch and are good for walking, sitting, and running.

   • Expect for clothes that have nerdy patterns, like plaid, argyle, or pinstripes. You can wear such patterns on your shirts, jackets, sweaters, or fifty-fifty your pants.
   • Bring a sweater to necktie effectually your waist if needed. This way, you'll be prepared for variable temperatures.
   • If you lot're a female person, only wear high heels if you lot can walk and run confidently in them. If you want to exist taller, stick with kitten heels or platform shoes; a significant heel can cause pes damage and is definitely not practical.
   • Shoes that nerds are ordinarily associated with wearing are Chuck Taylor All-Stars, loafers, dress shoes, and orthopedic shoes.
   • Mensurate your feet earlier you lot go shoe shopping. You desire to brand certain the shoes y'all buy give your feet plenty of support and condolement, and also room for yous to jerk your toes.
   • If you have foot problems like apartment feet, come across up with a podiatrist to have your feet examined.
   • Colored pants are a staple of the nerdy style. You can wear any pants yous like, but only wear ones that are comfortable for y'all. Pop color choices include olive greenish, maroon, chocolate-brown, gray, mustard yellow, and navy blue.
   • Khakis are a classic pick if colored pants aren't your affair.
   • Chino pants are a more coincidental alternative if you don't like wearing khakis.

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   Use your shirts to make nerd references or jokes. Expect for ones that brand y'all chuckle or smile. Math jokes, or obscure topics (binary code, Latin, etc.) work peachy, also, as do movie references.

   • Try using T-shirts to advertise your interest in your favorite video games, movies, books, or TV shows. This may attract new nerdy friends who like the same things.
   • Try on button-down shirts, long-sleeved or curt-sleeved ones. You can vesture information technology in a solid color or with a design. To appear dressier, article of clothing a tie and keep the shirt buttoned upward all the way.
   • Polo shirts are a more casual alternative if push-downwardly shirts aren't your thing.

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   Wearable glasses if yous need them. Spectacles non help yous see better, which is expert for your overall health, but they're also the defining staple of the nerdy style, so they'll assist increment your nerd quotient drastically. Notice a pair of glasses you lot like, and y'all'll go used to wearing them in no time.

   • Because nerds aren't into manner statements, wearing fake spectacles isn't really a nerd thing. (Geeks and hipsters sometimes do this.)

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   Sport ill-fitting clothes (if desired). Nerds are infamous in the way world for wearing dress that don't flatter their body type and are rather anachronistic, probably because their clothes are paw-me-downs. So if you're going for the nerd await, cull your wardrobe by lottery instead of carefully fitting the outfit together.

   • Some nerds go for the disheveled look (by blow or pick). At that place's cipher wrong with this as long equally y'all're showered and clean.

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   Apparel preppy. Some nerds, just non all, have the preppy look on lock-downwards. A button-downwardly shirt (tucked-in, of course), a belong, chino pants, and loafers, with a hint of messiness to tie information technology all together. Specially when worn during informal occasions, this style will become you lot pegged for a nerd in no fourth dimension.

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   Exist kind. A nerd may be very smart, but he or she never looks down on anyone who isn't as smart as he or she is; everyone is different, including nerds. Work on existence kind, gentle, and low-key with everyone around you, whether they are a jock, a valley girl, or anyone who has an intellectual inability.

   • Sometimes, correcting others hurts more than than it helps. If a person is sensitive or in a bad mood, or if the situation isn't good, permit information technology slide. (With the exception of health problems, of form.) If you know that a person prefers to be corrected, discreetly correct them and don't make it a big deal.
   • Support fellow nerds. If you should find a nerd getting bullied or snubbed by his or her non-nerdy peers, be at that place for him or her. Invite him or her to spend time together with you and then yous tin can get to know each other better.

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   Use the right words. Nerds are usually pretty adept with words considering they intendance about getting things right. It doesn't injure that they may read more in a month than the boilerplate American reads in a year.^[11] Regardless, the misconception out in that location is that nerds employ big words. Wrong. Nerds utilise the right word given the context. Sometimes, the right give-and-take happens to be a big 1. Very smart nerds have the power to utilize incredibly basic words to explain incredibly complex subject area matter.

   • Make the lexicon and thesaurus your friend. Whenever you come up beyond a give-and-take yous don't know, consult the dictionary. Whenever you believe y'all could be using a meliorate discussion given the circumstances, consult a thesaurus.
   • Skip the overly complex or obscure words if you're talking to a child or someone with a limited vocabulary. The point of communication is to share ideas, not make the other person feel inferior.
   • Recognize that prioritizing other things doesn't mean someone is unintelligent or boring. Some people who love to style hair are interested in the chemistry that is used to make hair products. Some football players love the theatre and interim.
   • It'due south always nice to exist friends with a fellow nerd, though yous shouldn't guess non-nerdy people for not being "smart." Perhaps they didn't have the same educational opportunities as you lot have had or they accept a disability. They even so could be interesting in other ways, and yous never know what you lot could learn from them.

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   Seek skillful, wholesome fun. Nerds are fun-loving and playful, with activities such as LAN parties, having picture marathons, playing part-playing or tabletop games, or collecting things (similar comic books, rocks and minerals, or motion picture paraphernalia) existence examples of typical nerdy activities. You tin can enjoy them lone (independence can be good) or with your new nerdy friends (the more the merrier!)!

   • Be cautious nearly alcohol, especially if you are underage. This can impair your judgment and could harm your ability to recognize harmful or dangerous activities.
   • Say "no thanks" if anyone offers you lot drugs.

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   Find friends with similar interests. While geeks often navigate between social groups, nerds are more than likely to associate with other nerds, because of common interests. Peradventure if you're an abstract thinker, try to find a nerd who'southward more practical or technical, and vice versa.^[12] Having a friend, or a prepare of friends, who complement you is as much equally anyone could ask for.

   • If you don't know any nerds who are interested in what you practise, find a community online or try to get your own friends interested in aspects of nerdiness. The spider web is increasingly becoming an important social customs for nerds, mainly because of its focus on gratuitous expression and its utility equally platform for technology.
   • Don't be afraid to branch out to non-nerdy friends too. They have their ain values and interesting perspectives.

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  I am an artist. I like reading and learning. Does it make me a nerd?

  

  That's up to yous! Many nerds similar those things, but that doesn't necessarily make you a nerd. The label of "nerd" is something y'all claim for yourself because yous like information technology and you recall it fits. Regardless of whether you lot similar the idea of being a nerd, interests in art, reading, and learning are excellent things. Keep pursuing them!

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  I am friends with a lot of people considered "nerds" and I desire to exist a nerd like them, but I don't know how I should talk. Should I be quieter? Or should I talk constantly? Please assist!

  

  Some nerds are repose, some nerds are talkative, and some are in between. Don't worry then much about how much you "should" talk. Speak up when you think yous have something worth saying, and finish to listen when you want to focus on someone else's ideas. Nerds share their unique ideas and they likewise listen and learn from other people. Use your best judgment and don't worry too much about it.

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  Existence a "nerd" is a label you give yourself. Having intelligence doesn't necessarily brand you a nerd, though it is a mutual "nerdy" trait. Run across if yous call up existence called a "nerd" seems plumbing equipment for y'all.

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  Do nerds have to wear spectacles?

  

  No - you don't need to wear glasses to be a nerd, and not all nerds wear spectacles. Nerds are usually associated with glasses, but some nerds wear contacts or don't have issues with their vision at all.

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  Does someone take to go to college to be a truthful nerd? Tin can nerds go to trade school?

  

  Nerds don't necessarily have to go to college. Many nerds choose to become to college to continue their education and study their passion, merely they're more than welcome to get to merchandise school instead or to end their education after high school.

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  Why do nerds take wellness issues like allergies, nosebleeds, asthma, or motion sickness?

  

  Existence a nerd doesn't give you wellness issues, and having wellness problems doesn't brand you a nerd. Nerds may be depicted every bit having certain health issues in the media, only many nerds practice not have these wellness bug at all, information technology's but a stereotype with no foundation.

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  Why are nerds are associated with health problems, such equally allergies, asthma, foot aroma, nosebleeds, motion sickness, etc.?

  

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  Nerds vary greatly in terms of body types, and in that location is no size limit. Nerds can be chubby, thin, strong, physically disabled, short, tall, and any shape and size. Don't listen to anyone who tells y'all that your size should limit who you lot allow yourself to be. Being a nerd is about personality and beliefs, not torso type. Anyone tin can be a nerd if they want to be.

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• If yous make mistakes in the exam, check with your teacher straight abroad to know what they are, so you tin can correct them in the future. Bargain for marks if you lot accept to; there is nothing incorrect in that if you are serious nearly education.

• Exist yourself. Do you like to solve equations all the time? Get on then!

• Always pay attention in class or the workplace to assimilate concepts, as yous will never know whether someone volition enquire for help. Participate in discussions and aid your instructor or supervision/direction to analyze any bailiwick that you may feel needs summarizing or simplifying, if that back up seems to be somewhat appreciated.

• Learn some practiced figurer languages. Bones might piece of work.

• Get into classic nerd films or television serial like Firefly and Quiet, Doctor Who, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, "Planet of The Apes", the original Tron, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and Star Expedition. (Yous might also try Red Dwarf, Robotech, Infinite 1999, any of the works of Irwin Allen, Blake's Seven and other lesser known sci-fi classics that are too unknown for big budgets.)

• Become into gaming if you desire to kill time: Portal, DragonFable, Counter Strike, World of Warcraft, Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising, Dungeons & Dragons Online and Ragnarök Online.

• Good science-fiction and fantasy are nerdy, though you should note that nerds are discriminating readers and, different some geeks, will often choose quality over enjoyability or escapism. Nerdy sci-fi classics include Isaac Asimov'south Foundation "Robot", and "Empire" series, Frank Herbert's Dune novels, William Gibson's Neuromancer, Edgar Rice Burroughs's "Barsoom" serial, Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars trilogy.

• Non-fiction, especially on scientific/mathematical topics, is also nerdy. Read in your specialty — such as synthesizer music, programming — or other calculator manuals (well, manuals in general), math textbooks, and specialty magazines or journals, like "Biochemistry", "Scientific American", "Popular Science", "Zoobooks", Nuts & Volts or Cinefex.

• Here's a list of suggestions of unlike types of nerds, non stereotypes; these are sketches, not rules:

  • Anime/Manga nerd—a nerd who is obsessed with Anime or Manga, and basically everything Japanese in full general. Too called 'Wapanese' (a more derogatory term meaning white people who pretend to be Japanese). Nerds of these sorts as well call themselves 'Otaku,' which is a Japanese insult meaning 'fanatic.' (The term is not mostly recognized outside of Japan, and is used more often than not by American anime and manga fans.) The Otaku customs is non just a group of rabid fans; they are often prolific and creative fan fiction writers. Otaku frequently attend anime and manga conventions, and sometimes engage in cosplay. Otaku are generally common, and easy to discover in a group of nerds.
  • Comic book nerd- these are nerds that are interested in comic books and comic book characters, especially superheroes. You lot can exist a nerd nigh the Marvel/DC Comics superhero franchise or you can be interested in other, non manga comic books and graphic novels such every bit The Archies. These nerds are similar to the manga nerds and they may be involved in activities such every bit cosplaying.
  • Music nerd—also called "ring geeks." These nerds got groove. They're usually seen with their musical instrument of choice or silently tapping out complicated pulsate rhythms.
  • DJ nerd—practices constantly, hordes vinyl in massive quantities, and can retrieve the artist, track name, record label, year of release, and a million other obscure details near every tape ever released in their chosen favorite genre. They also like to make DJ playlists for their own benefit.
  • Estimator nerd—helpful, and can compile a kernel in a heartbeat. They know at least 1 programming language, and are skilled hackers. Usually seen putting the finishing touches on a website or helping the estimator-tech teacher.
  • Video game nerd—these nerds are condign more than common daily. Ever seen playing and competing in the latest games, they are the progenitors of the '1337' language, and ordinarily identify each other past conversing in information technology. A sub-class of the Estimator nerd. Even so, video games are more of a geek thing.
  • Factoid nerd—annoying at times, but weirdly endearing. Can recite dozens of things no one needed to know — from the total "Hamlet's Soliloquy" to the nutritional value of caprine animal's milk (non just trivia, just things might matter in your knowledge-base).
  • History nerd—Knows everything about their favorite time menstruation(south). Compares everyday life to historical events. Is a historian by a young age and could shell college students in American Government course.
  • Competitive nerd—compares results, too much; may breathe loudly, and also glance around to see who'due south not finished, in their marginal time—has to be the first i done (or the concluding one, if information technology requires depth and thoroughness). Frequently alienates others. Always wants to exist the best at everything, specially in academics.
  • Dorky nerd—gifted with a natural lack of grace and style. They have difficulty carrying on a conversation nearly topics that are non their obsession. Nevertheless, they are often sweet and endearing.
  • Drama nerd—possessed with an attitude, which is rare in other types of nerds. They know the ins and outs of many theater arts, including dance, mime, chorus, et cetera.
  • Math nerd—normally knows calculus at a immature age or another form of advanced math. They savor playing with numbers and learning more than what is taught in school. You tin can go math nerd stuff such as tutorials on the Net.^[thirteen]
  • Natural scientific discipline nerd—initially a generalist, he/she almost always specializes in i form of science (biology, physics, astronomy, chemical science, geology) at a very immature historic period and proceeds to become a super-specialist.
  • "Sci-Fi" nerd—a nerd who loves Star Wars, Ten-Files, Comics, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate SG-1 or Stargate Atlantis, Lexx, Farsape, Andromeda, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Zombies and/or Star Trek. May be a geek.
  • Literature nerd—specializes in fiction, almost always seen to be reading or composing post-modern essays. Usually has a favorite era of literature. Known to be able to produce a notebook out of nowhere. Distinct from emo poets.
  • Speech communication nerd—speaks conspicuously and enunciates well. Launch randomly into friendly lectures. Never shuts upward. Speaks too passionately for this subject, compared to the average person's disinterest.
  • Argue nerd—always firm in their behavior. They exercise their homework on controversial issues, so don't mess with them! They can be found in fence clubs (obviously) and are normally holding some sort of statement even if they're just playing devils abet.
  • No-crap nerd—these nerds will not bargain with others' bad behavior and will stand strong with what they know and believe. These nerds may also take martial art, weightlifting classes, boxing, etc. to be able to stand up and fight, a rarity amid nerds.
  • Fabricator nerd—can blueprint and build engineering and physics projects, and employ ability tools like nobody's business. They know how to work everything from a soldering iron to a chainsaw... sometimes without fifty-fifty checking a manual. Many construction nerds are robotic nerds.
  • Robotics nerd—joins programs like BEST, Offset, or other after-school robotics clubs. They can usually piece of work any kind of remote (and with lightening speed) and are commonly proficient with electronics/computers.
  • Runway nerd—a nerd who has an obsession with railways, commonly known equally a trainspotter. Ofttimes seen at a station with a notebook, camera, or binoculars.
  • Road nerd—Also called a road geek, these nerds specialize in roads. They get to "road meets", and drive around a lot.
  • Hot nerd—The most elusive of all nerds, due challenges in identifying the species by sight alone. Demands an approximately 1:1:1 ratio of cute, funny, and intelligent. Mutual traits include: individual activities (willing to split from the pack), ability and willingness to read a book outside of Stephen King, Michael Crichton or John Grisham, tends to exist quiet withal articulate; a subtle sense of sense of humour and quick wit... and, of form, cuteness.
  • Absurd nerd—this is a social classing of a nerd, also referred to every bit 'popular nerds.' Nonetheless, don't be deceived by the words "cool" or "popular." These nerds nonetheless have their quirks, it just means that they are more than sociable than other nerds. Most cool nerds have a good sense of humor and dress in an edgy, fashionable way.
  • Bad-mannered nerd—this is the second type of social classing for nerds. These nerds can range from socially inept to but annoying, just basically boil downwards to awkward (hence the name). Being awkward isn't a completely bad matter. They have friends and see all the requirements of beingness a nerd, but they normally have less of a social life.
  • Social science nerds—Usually dwell in fields such as psychology, sociology, economics, anthropology, and political science. These guys accept the crown for jargon, articulation, and long-windedness. Although their ideas are often overlooked, they however manage to propose earth-shattering epiphanies about human being behavior.
  • Astronomy nerd -- They are very interested in astronomy and know a lot about it. These nerds volition sometimes take themselves nose deep in an astronomy volume.

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• Don't get so consumed with your obsession that you lose sight of reality. A counterbalanced life is important, and a good nerd recognizes the value of other pursuits. Besides much specialization is unhealthy.

• If you constantly swell or mock someone who is less intelligent than y'all, they could get their friends to mock you or groovy dorsum.

• Not anybody in your life will like y'all for your nerdiness. Some may bully or try to convince you that "No, y'all have information technology wrong..." and your nerdy style (or nerds in general) aren't absurd. Whatever you do, exist faithful to truth and accuracy. Mind to new ideas if they have worth, and don't become bogged downwards by stuffy ideologies or banal stereotypes.

• If you want to be a calculator nerd, don't use Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge. They are bad browsers and are the "default browsers" on your computer. The same matter with the Apple Safari on Apple products. Good web browsers are Firefox and Google Chrome. Improve withal, utilize a more than obscure, less mainstream browsers such as Opera. Never refer to either web browser by their full proper noun, IE and FF are popular acronyms for the first ii. GC to correspond Google Chrome is outdated - use "chrome" instead

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