During the Tim Ferriss Show last weekend, Mark Zuckerberg was asked what he usually does to relieve stress during his 18 years running Facebook. In response, the CEO said he often wakes up early every day to read emails about Meta’s internal information, including “a large amount of bad news” that the billionaire has to receive.
“It’s like getting punched in the face,” admits Mark Zuckerberg.
To avoid feeling “attacked”, Mark Zuckerberg chose to surf to forget. This CEO shared that he still has a habit of surfing every morning to release all negative energy, about an hour or more each time, then go back to work.
“In a place surrounded by only water, it’s hard to think about anything else. Standing on a skateboard, you’ll just focus on it,” he shared.
After each one, Zuckerberg felt things calm down and filled with energy to tackle the problem. CEO Meta admits that when there is too much negative information, it is true that the ability to handle work that day is also less effective.
Mark Zuckerberg loves surfing
According to Business Insider, Mark Zuckerberg loves surfing. It is known that during the time when Meta employees had to work remotely due to the pandemic, Mark spent most of his time on the Hawaiian island of Kauai playing this water sport.
In May of last year, a reporter captured the moment Mark Zuckerberg was surfing in Hawaii with an anklet designed to protect users from shark attack. The type of board that the Facebook CEO uses is also quite special: It can be raised above the water and is suitable for use in waters without waves, thus, helping surfers look like they are floating.
Also in the interview, Zuckerberg mentioned the early days of Facebook development. The CEO said he was greatly influenced by the advice of Yahoo COO Dan Rosensweig.
“He told me ‘every organization is fundamentally bad, you can choose one of those bad ways’. That can be a negative thing, but basically, if you want to grow fast, you have to accept it. accept,” said Mark.
Facebook was revealed by The Washington Post to secretly hire a media company to carry out a ‘national campaign’, specializing in defaming and drowning TikTok for many years.
Mark Zuckerberg’s share in the Tim Ferriss Show program was quoted by Business Insider in the context of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, continuously facing big changes after the scandals of user data leakage and unverified postings. carefully browsed. This caused the largest social network on the planet to witness a decline in the number of users for the first time in its 18-year history of development. According to technology magazine The Verge, by the end of February, CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s social network had lost 1 million accounts after only 3 months.
Most recently, Facebook was also revealed by The Washington Post to secretly hire a media company to carry out a “national campaign”, specializing in defaming and drowning TikTok for many years. Meta’s representative then remained “sober” and confirmed that they had hired the Targeted Victory company to “raise public opinion against TikTok”.
“We believe all platforms, including TikTok, will come under scrutiny even when they are at their most successful,” Meta representative Andy Stone said in a statement.