How 2 Weeks of Bali Surfing & Digital Nomading Changed Me

Nick Canfield
5 min readOct 26, 2022
Bali Surfing — October 2022

I have been struggling with a difficult question for the past year. Many in philosophy have tried to tackle this question to help others live their best lives, but for me, it has been more of a selfish conquest. Here’s the question:

With the short time I have here on earth, how can I maximize my human experience?

Could this question be the result of a quarter-life millennial's crisis? An existential dilemma brought about by being inside too much during the last 2.5 years? Perhaps it is, perhaps not, but I flew to Bali with this question well in the front of my prefrontal cortex. So after landing at Bali Airport and painfully passing through immigration, I sat my ass down on the beach searching for a cold coconut and a good solid surf session.

Socrates Didn’t Have a Surfboard & Laptop in Bali

I looked around on the beach and saw hundreds of people begging me to rent a surfboard for the rest of the evening, and I’ve always found it funny how no matter where you go in the beach world there are always guys with dreads and…

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Nick Canfield

Founder of GlobalHola.com Outsourcing | tropicflare.com | 📈Data geek. 💼Entrepreneur. 🌊🌴Digital Nomad.