Get Ready

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

By: Buzzy Cohen

Narrated by: Buzzy Cohen

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.