Karen Rinaldi: It's Great To Suck at Something

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Karen Rinaldi has discovered the joy in suckitude and strives to get even better at it. She has a burning passion for surfing and does it every chance she gets even though she knows she's not amazing at it. Beyond how to get tossed by waves, she has learned something far more valuable and she intends to share it with you. Listen in to find out what we're missing out on by thinking we have to be good at everything we do. (It's great to) Suck at something!

Karen has worked in publishing for over 2 decades and has recently published her own book, (It's Great to) Suck at Something

Karen's website can be found at https://KRinaldi.com

Follow Karen on Instagram - @RinaldiWave

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0:00.0	It's part of the culture telling us that we're not allowed to it's part of the culture telling us you know that we feel humiliated
0:06.7	You know that's the thing about surfing is that when you're not the lineup like everybody knows you're the kook I mean there is just no way around it and what I have
0:15.3	found is that I had to get over you know surfing is the coolest sport in the world if you're
0:21.7	good at it. The thing, I mean there's nothing less cool than a not good
0:27.3	surfer and that would be me. You know, doesn't mean I can't surf. You know, I do surf when people see me catch waves they're always
0:35.2	completely shocked because they're like, oh my called, you do surf. Like, yeah, I can surf. It's just, it's hard for me, but I can
0:41.9	once I, you know, paddle into catch and, you know, catch a wave. I can once I you know paddle into catch and you know catch a wave I can
0:44.9	catch sections and have a nice ride and blah blah blah they're like oh you could I was like yeah I can
0:49.4	do this so much of it is not pretty.
0:53.4	But what I found is that what was beautiful
0:56.2	is when I let go of that idea of, okay,
0:58.8	I have to let go the way I'm afraid people
1:01.4	or what they're thinking about me, right? because actually people aren't really thinking about you because they just out themselves and what they you know people are thinking about their own ways they just don't want you in the way but I think this is a metaphor for everything else. It's like, why do we do people not judge you if you aren't judging yourself, right?
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