Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The process is really important, not the product. Sometimes you have successes, but most often you don’t. If you don’t love the process, you’re not going to do it very long, and if you don’t do it very long, your chances of changing the world are going to be pretty slim. You always have to be looking for new perspectives, new vantage points."
In his new book, The Activist Angler, Gallatin and Steinhardt Professor Stephen Duncombe discusses parallels that he observed between activism and angling when he began fishing during the height of the pandemic. NYU News joined Duncombe at NYC's Central Park lake where he shares some of the lessons he's learned.
The process is really important, not the product. Sometimes you have successes, but most often you don’t. If you don’t love the process, you’re not going to do it very long, and if you don’t do it very long, your chances of changing the world are going to be pretty slim. You always have to be looking for new perspectives, new vantage points."
In his new book, The Activist Angler, Gallatin and Steinhardt Professor Stephen Duncombe discusses parallels that he observed between activism and angling when he began fishing during the height of the pandemic. NYU News joined Duncombe at NYC's Central Park lake where he shares some of the lessons he's learned.
