Latest episode of ‘Walking the Floor’ digs into writer and former surfing pro’s California upbringing
Brisick attributes his drive to succeed to a childhood spent in California.
“Growing up in Southern California, we’re careerists,” he says. “We define ourselves via our careers. That’s what we champion. That’s what we value. If you do it at a high level, you get the respect of your peers and you feel good about yourself.”That said, he’s been guilty of letting that drive consume him. . .and learned a tragic, life-changing lesson when he lost his spouse earlier this decade.
“My wife died suddenly in 2013 in a cycling accident in Rio, and it ripped me open,” he remembers. “But I also had this strange realization. The last five years of my wife’s life were me not being fully there because I was bummed because my writing career wasn’t going better, and I wasn’t getting he validation from the New York publishing world I was hoping for.” He coped with her loss by returning to his longtime passion: the water.
Brisick’s interest in higher learning was cemented by a childhood spent amongst academics, scholars and the like. “My father was an intellectual, and he was a writer and he was a publishers’ rep, selling textbooks to all the colleges in greater Los Angeles,” he remembers, recounting family dinners whose guests included college professors and enlightened conversation.“I remember at one point, when we got really into surfing, my dad said, ‘You know, I grew up in Jersey, and there were seasons,'” Brisick recalls. “‘Four to six months a year, you were summoned indoors, and that’s where you read.
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