The greatest juggler alive quit to open a construction business
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Re: The greatest juggler alive quit to open a construction business
#2Because there's no money in juggling?
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#3Is there a punchline there? Let me try...
"Why did the greatest juggler alive quit to open a concrete business?... Because juggling is insubstantial!"
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#4I don't see any tragedy here and I doubt Gatto/Commarota does either. He did something amazingly well as a kid and young adult, had fun with it and has now decided it's time to move on. The tragedy with top sports-people is often when they retire and have a lot of trouble adjusting to not being the best in the world at something. From the article it sounds like Commarota finally got tired of the constant stress on his body and the difficulty of supporting and spending time with his family while professionally juggling and is now successfully transitioning to a very 'down-to-earth' career. Good luck to him.
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#5This article's existence, headline included is the straight-forward definition of ridiculous.
"In the future, the truest sign of human existential crises came not from plague, wars, or conspiracy, but ineffable journalism."
It also comes with a self-esteem hedge in the opening just in case you don't read. What might be an interesting story would the the meta-article on the set of these types of stories.
Re: The greatest juggler alive quit to open a construction business
#6Because there's no money in juggling?
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#7I don't see any tragedy here and I doubt Gatto/Commarota does either. He did something amazingly well as a kid and young adult, had fun with it and has now decided it's time to move on. The tragedy with top sports-people is often when they retire and have a lot of trouble adjusting to not being the best in the world at something. From the article it sounds like Commarota finally got tired of the constant stress on hi…
I agree, I see no conflict or tragedy also.
He is a man that has pursued excellence, understands quality, likes to work for himself (performer, landscape gardener, etc), seems to have a competitive edge but also seems wise to it, and has demonstrated keenness to carefully coach others or explain how to do things.
It should be quite a successful business.
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#8Even though the answer to the article's question is pretty easy (there are really very few athletic or show business fields of endeavor that you can actually make a good living doing), as I was reading it and watching the videos I was really glad that it was posted to HN. I think it's fascinating to learn about someone who's the best at something incredibly difficult.
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#9>>Will it get me another job? ... If you can’t understand why I don’t waste my energy on doing seven balls overhead for a minute to make a youtube video for people to watch, then you haven’t entered the real world yet.
I had a similar discussion with my office colleagues a few weeks back. When there was a call for a 'Hacknight' at our workplace to drive revenues up, when a SVP panicked he was going to miss his target. And the people where asked to contribute and magically rescue the whole situation out of nowhere. Nearly every one agreed that they would not contribute a minute to that 'Hacknight'
When people just give up, start giving damn about things. Its generally because they've been taken for a ride, before. Once hard working night owl hackers stop doing things because they watch some jack ass four levels above them doing 1/100th the work but taking nearly everything that is right fully theirs.
The Hack night was a big flop, ofcourse the SVP called for a meeting next day and lectured about motivation and lack of passion in the team(Meaning, people not ready sacrifice a great deal and give away their work for free). And how despite all the help from the leadership(Meaning, Arranging for biscuits and tea, and then going to home to get sleep) people were not ready to contribute to the company(Meaning, Help the VP make an additional million in yearly bonus).
Ultimately you get what you pay for.
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#10I used to run the world's biggest juggling video repository (JuggleThis.net, now defunct) which itself was definitely responsible for a lot of the irritation Gatto found with the new generation of camera-happy juggling kids.
Certainly he was frustrated by newcomers filming 100 takes and showing just one (something I'm guilty of too!). But without being a juggler yourself it's hard to express just how much better than everyone else he really was. If being able to do a trick with N balls is unit difficulty, adding N+2 balls is a factor of 10-100 harder. Being able to perform it is another 10-100 times again.
Gatto regularly performed things the next best jugglers could barely do at all. He was the Donald Bradman of juggling, and I'm very sad we now have to say "was".