Everybody needs a good fantasy. If it wasn’t for my surfing fantasies, I might not have moved all the way to California for graduate school; and I probably wouldn’t have risked leaving Washington State to start all over in Southern California. Those efforts were, in part, fueled by dreams of sunshine and perfect waves. Fantasies are great motivators as long as you: 1) know when to keep them to yourself and 2) don’t let them totally warp your sense of reality...

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