“I’m no pro-surfer or millionaire. And I’m not a coach or guru. I’m a normal guy, but I have a life many don’t consider normal. A life you might think is reserved for lucky or successful people.
I don’t intend to tell you how to live. But if you’ve ever felt something is not quite ‘right’ about how we pursue success, you’re not alone.
When the bubble of career success burst, I found respite and freedom in the surf. I discovered the surfer’s mindset – and I learned a better way to do things.
My life isn’t perfect, but it gets pretty close to the perfection I once only dreamt of.
This is the story of how the spirit of surfing showed me the kind of success that makes life worth living. This is the tale of Froth and Hustle.”
How can surfing make you better at almost everything you do?
Just ask Chris Brown. His journey from the heights of his corporate career to the lows of unemployment, made him almost give up on his dreams. But a simple choice to take up surfing in his late twenties turned out to be the single choice that supported him through the challenges of rebuilding his life, eventually setting him on a path to create his own business with the freedom to work from anywhere in the world.
Part memoir and part personal philosophy, Froth and Hustle will show you how even non-surfers can adopt a ‘surfer’s mindset’ by learning a new way to think about life, a way that exists in the entanglement of nature, perspective and art.
Table of Content
Copyright
Dedication
Preface: Looking over the precipice
Introduction: A little bit about me
Part 1: HUSTLE
The Hustle is where it all began
- Natural confidence is something you learn
- Hustle is about relationships first
- Your network will make all the difference
- Are you looking for anything in particular?
- The biggest failure is to not take risks
- Be comfortable with being uncomfortable
- Recognise you’re the square peg
- How to make mistakes
- Think like an animal
- What Hustle taught me….
Part 2: FROTH
The Froth is when it feels right
- The Stoke cures all
- Nature is the only reality
- View the world from a new perspective
- It’s not what you do, it’s how you do it
- The secret to freedom is choice
- Simple things are the best
- Close a window, open a door
- What Froth taught me
Part 3: THE BRIDGE
Putting it all together
- Term 1: Define success
- Term 2: Design a career
- Term 3: Live life
Part 4: FROTH & HUSTLE
The Froth & Hustle Philosophy
- Connect
- Flow
- Let Go
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Author’s Biography
Artist’s Biography
About the author
Monez is a Balinese illustrator, influenced by the fables of his childhood. While he began drawing at a young age, by the end of high school, he was called to a future in his family’s garment business. After a short career in the factory office, Monez opposed family tradition and pursued a Master of Art at The Indonesian Institute of the Arts. He chose the road his grandfather, a painter, had taken. Inspired by Balinese culture and the folk-tales that drove his obsession with monsters, Monez developed a style called ‘Fablelous’, a modern interpretation of his cultural traditions.
Today Monez’s work can be seen in many forms, from large-scale murals to characters in children’s books, at exhibitions in Asia, Africa and the United States to collaborations with Apple, Disney and Starbucks, and as a featured artist on design apps Affinity Designer and Procreate to the apparel and stationery he sells under the brand MONSTERO.
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