The Art of Self-Surrender

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes

You can’t make change in your life without inviting some form of introspection — and fortunately, this is exactly the purpose of self-surrender

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Surrendering is a unique and bizarre experience. Sometimes you don’t have any choice in the matter; life humbles and expands you in such a way that what little resistance there was inside of you fades on its own. But there are other times as a human where you must consciously choose to surrender or continue to resist. Much like riding a skateboard and doing an ollie down an eight-count stair set and falling on your face, elbow or back ten times in a row. 

Skateboarding taught me to view the world as an outcast and thus as someone