Surfing and Investing
May 10th, 2010 by Kevin
Marketing guru Seth Godin published a great post today entitled ‘Surfing is the new career’. Seth says:
Talk to surfers and they’ll explain that the entire sport comes down to the hunt for that blissful moment that combines three unstable elements in combination: the wave is just a little too big to handle, the board is going just a little too fast, and the ride could end at any moment."
The context for this post is related changes in the way people define a career these days – whereby many people are now ‘finding ways to surf and get paid for it’. However, my feeling is that investing is taking the same path. Investing no longer needs to be a boring like the factory jobs of days gone by, and more importantly you don’t need to sit back and watch while someone else rides the board you paid for. Investment options these days are amazingly diverse and fun. Take offshore investment for instance, with the right scaffolding it can just like the blissful surfing moment mentioned above.
