About<\/span> Suck at Something<\/h1>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.14″ text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em”]<\/p>\n
We\u2019re living in a time of aspirational psychoses, with everything pushing us towards some perceived weighty relevance. Social media is all about it. And, contributing more bogus incentives to the crapheap of our insecurities, everywhere we turn we are bombarded with messages telling us to \u201cbe the best or nothing at all.\u201d Where does that leave us? How many \u201cbests\u201d can there be? It\u2019s time to put aside our need for reward and stroking and instead embrace our lesser talents. In the process, we\u2019ll discover freedom and have a good laugh at ourselves.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m here to promote the power of practiced irrelevance. Here\u2019s mine: I love surfing and I spend way more time doing it than my skill level would have you believe. I suck at it. But, no matter. I have organized the last twenty years of my life around something that is the most difficult thing I\u2019ve ever done, and something in which I will never, ever surpass mediocrity. The ocean reminds me of this each time I paddle out. But what I lack in innate talent, I make up for in persistence–some might call it stubbornness, some might call it folly\u2014but in the spaces between whatever you call it, there\u2019s a lot of good stuff hiding. In my suckitude, I have learned a lot more than just how to take a wave on the head. <\/p>\n
My surfboard may be your guitar or saxophone, your pottery clay or knitting needles, your putter or tennis racket, your bag of latex twisting balloons or karaoke machine. The instrument or action is simply the means by which we practice transcending our usefulness. Whatever the tool or method, by allowing ourselves to suck at something, we\u2019ll have more patience with ourselves for getting better at the things that really matter. Like finding joy in unexpected places and busting down the doors of perfectionism, workaholism, cool, and so many other false paeans to true success. I hope to help get you started on your journey to suckitude. Or, if you are already on the way, share your story with us!<\/p>\n
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My name is Karen Rinaldi and I\u2019ve enjoyed suckitude at many things before I found surfing, among them skiing, horseback riding, boxing, running, and roller-blading. The rest of the time, I\u2019ve worked in the publishing industry for over two decades. I live in New York and New Jersey with my family. I\u2019m far from perfect, and I\u2019m not working on it. If you\u2019re curious about it, you can find out more about what I do besides sucking at www.krinaldi.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-81","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
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