“You’ve got your GoPro out. You got a good selfie, and you feel good about yourself."
Masses starving for insight often look to the wildly rich. Last week, Reddit’s co-founder Alexis Ohanian attempted to provide. The 40-year-old delivered a keynote address at his alma mater Virginia University. The audience was likely packed with dreamers and rubes. Those hoping to get a leg up in this modern world by following in the path of the tech rich.
Ohanian, worth $70 million, gazed upon their upturned faces, their innocent eyes, and gifted a critically debunked way forward.
“The Surfer Mindset”
“There’s a really good analogy about life and business and surfing … Some waves come by, and you rip them perfect, and you are just killing it,” he said. “You’ve got your GoPro out. You got a good selfie, and you feel good about yourself. Afterward, you might paddle back out … and wait five hours for another good wave.”
The “waiting five hours” apparently the key.
“That mindset is the right mindset for a life well-lived,” he continued. “If you spent all your time on that board, just being anxious about the wave you just missed, you’re going to miss the next one. If you spend it just daydreaming and trying to relive that one amazing wave you just had, you might miss the next one.”
The Reddit maestro continued to share about “catching Ls” and bouncing back. Attendees, no doubt, taking furious notes.
Social scientists everywhere shaking their heads.
They proved, long ago, that the “surfer mindset” is actually a feral and stilted state. A small, selfish path reducing its practitioner to a life poorly lived.
An unbroken string of “Ls.”
A Reddit Ruse
Ohanian’s attempt to kneecap future competition should have been apparent with the “good selfie” and “GoPro” references. Alas, it is now a VAL world. We are just living in it.
It is a shame the rich man did not gift actual advice. He married the greatest ever athlete Serena Williams and imagine the game he played there. The baseline hammers, net charges, power serves. Etc.
I suppose he will keep the secrets of the “tennis mindset” all to himself.
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thread could be script for a Baywatch episode. here’s you’re babe! http://celebmafia.com/wp-co…
she’s featured in a new car commercial (Esplanade $55K) and all they show is her well-maked-up face. or at least I think its her ’cause every tv commercial has a a well-maked-up face of her look-a-likes. black and white tv is making a come-back. have been riding my waterbed solo for 20+ years and afraid to bring on a partner ’cause am afraid that a bigger wave might pop it. No need for her or the car. I’m just a lil’ guy!
https://www.pandora.com/art…
he kissed natasha henstringe…inna hot tub! or was it a waterbed?
inna gadda vidda
https://photographs.ventura…
Nah, he’s ok. But gorillas have bad days too, ya know?
Gorilla tactics!?…
Sean Penn was smarter in fast times than he is in reality.
i follow Robin…Wright.
and ur 1st AM heat…
Mat…No Nat!
No matter how good his game is at the end of it he gets told to fetch a towel and bring a drink.
New balls, please.
That’s funny, because when I surf I employ the ‘reddit mindset’ typified by most users of the platform: being a smug, insufferable know it all cunt that can’t actually surf.
r/surfads
“The surfer mindset 2.0” – Driving around with a buddy from spot to spot for hours. One of you finding an issue at each spot be it conditions or crowd. Never in agreement. As the wind picks up you finally end up back at the first spot you checked where conditions have deteriorated and crowd doubled. Sitting there in silence you turn to your buddy and say we should probably just go out. He nods slowly in agreement. Gopro not included.
Surfer mindset north of the bridge. Wake up see which way the wind is blowing and how big the swell is. It’s either SF or Bolinas.
Put the bong behind the seat of the truck, stop at donut alley on the way over the hill. Surf the channel then buy some beer at the Bolinas store and hang out on the overlook and talk shit with friends
Days, months, years pass by, late for holiday dinners, letters to relatives never written. Classes not signed up for, etc. Where did the time go?