Mark Zuckerberg says sports are important for his mental health, reveals how it helps him run Meta
Remember when Elon Musk had challenged Mark Zuckerberg to a “cage match”? A Twitter (now called X) user had warned the X chief that the Meta CEO was a jiu-jitsu champion.
But it looks like jiu-jitsu isn’t just a skill to be proud of for Zuckerberg. The Facebook founder, in an interview last year, had said that he can run his businesses thanks to jiu-jitsu.
In June last year, during an episode of the Lex Fridman podcast, Zuckerberg had said that he and his friends train in jiu-jitsu together. He added that he went to a tournament of jiu-jitsu only after a friend of his convinced him to do so.
He had said, “I got a ton of my friends into it. We all train together. We have a mini Academy in my garage. And one of my friends was like, “Hey, we should go do a tournament.” “I was like, okay, yeah, let’s do it.” I’m not gonna shy away from a challenge. I registered under my first and middle name, so Mark Elliot and it wasn’t until I actually like pulled all that stuff off right before I got on the mat that I think people knew it was me.”
Adding how sports (for instance, jiu-jutsu) help him focus on everything, he said, “I’m a competitive person. Doing sports that basically require your full attention, I think is really important to my mental health and the way I just stay focused on doing everything I’m doing. So, I decided to get into martial arts and it’s, it’s awesome.”
Talking about how sports like jiu-jitsu helps one remain focused, Zuckerberg then added that it acts as an important lesson for people that they should be able to navigate through challenges.
“I think that almost all the people that start successful companies or thinks like are working extremely hard, but one of the things that you learn by doing this over time or very acutely with things like jiu jitsu or surfing is that you can’t push through everything,” he had said and added, “I do think that’s sort of a humbling but also an important life lesson for people who are running things or building things, yeah a lot of the game is just being able to push and work through complicated things, but you also need to have enough of an understanding of which things you just can’t push through and where the finesse is more important.”
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