Life Lessons w/ Chad Muska | “…finding out who I really was away from the public persona that had been created…
The Muska is a legend for good reason. He came from nothing, reached the top, and then found a way to keep reinventing and self-educating to constantly make himself a better person to himself and those around him. Chad is much more than a iconic skateboarder at this point, but it hasn’t come without some battles. Here he looks back on some life lessons that he has learned.
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When you look back at your journey now, what stands out as the biggest challenge along the way?
There have been so many, but I think the expectations of others can be a big one in life. With skateboarding, I had to prove myself to make my mark. Then after you get to that point, there’s a level of expectation that comes along with it: you need to keep outdoing yourself.
Another big challenge was coming from nothing and making something of myself – because I didn’t know, really, what to do with it all and how to take it. I made a lot of mistakes financially along the way that I had to learn from and get myself out of multiple times.
There are so many more life lessons… Maybe one of the biggest things that I learned – and this comes with drinking and partying and all that – was finding out who I really was away from the public persona that had been created over the years through skateboarding, through fashion, through art.
All the things that I’ve done, at one point, became their own monster. And I was just following along with it. As those things faded away more, with me less in the spotlight as younger skaters came along, I wasn’t the hotshot I once was. I had to go through a lot of digging within myself just to figure out, ‘Okay, who are you? And who was this persona that had been created?’ Getting sober was a major step in me having the time and mental capacity to answer some of those questions.
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