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Overview

  • 20 references 19 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Croatian, English; learning German, Russian, Spanish
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2014
  • No occupation listed
  • Hospitality and Service Management - RIT New York
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About Me

Last update
Since March 2020
I currently live in Zagreb, Croatia
(since Coronavirus situation worldwide started) :
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My motto in life:
Learn to be grateful for what you got,
in your pursuit of what you want.
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There's nothing so bad,
that it can't be worse than it already is...
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Ništa nije toliko loše da ne može biti gore nego što je...
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Originally from Croatia, but Atlanta, GA has been my home for the last few years.

I work a lot, so I might not be able to spend a lot of time with people that I host, but if you need a place to stay for a night or two, you are welcome.

Traveling is my passion, but I never really used couch surfing during my travels.

I used to work for the Ritz-Carlton and St. Regis for a number of years, so I could always count on hotel discounts wherever I traveled.

I am focused on hosting people for now and so far it was a great experience.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meet new people.

I live in one bedroom apartment and the bed that I'm offering to couch surfers is in the living room
(a comfortable couch that can fit two people with memory foam topper). I sleep in the bedroom.

The building has a rooftop with an amazing view of Buckhead Atlanta and it is accessible 24 hours a day.

Interests

Foreign languages (German, Spanish, English, Russian)

Sports Betting

Books (Business, Psychology, Self-development)

Hospitality

  • books
  • coffee
  • wine tasting
  • drinking
  • traveling
  • sports
  • business
  • languages
  • psychology
  • youtube
  • audiobooks
  • analytics
  • 420 friendly
  • sports betting
  • eye-q
  • cumbre

Music, Movies, and Books

These are some of my favorite books along with the authors:

Rudiger Safranksi - Goethe: Life as a Work of Art
Michael Ovitz - Who is Michael Ovitz?
David Goggins - Can't hurt me
James Clear - Atomic Habits
James Allen - As a Man thinketh
Viktor Frankl - Man's search for Meaning
Ashlee Vance - Elon Musk biography
Eckhart Tolle - The Journey into Yourself
Nassim Nicolas Taleb - Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, Anti-Fragile, Skin in the game
Ray Dalio - Principles
Walter Isaacson - biographies of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jobs
Peter Bernstein - Against the Gods (the remarkable story of risk)
Edwin Lefevre - Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edward Thorp - A Man for all Markets
Adam Kucharski - Perfect Bet: How Science and Math are taking luck out of gambling
Tim Ferriss - 4 Hour Workweek, The Tao of Seneca
Phillip Tetlock - Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic
Ray Kurzweil - How to create a mind
Benjamin Graham - The Intelligent Investor
Oren Klaff - Pitch Anything
Sean Stephenson - Get off your 'but'
Jon Wertheim - Scorecasting: The hidden influences behind how sports are played and games are won
Michael Konik - The Smart Money
Jim Rohn - The Power of Ambition
Eric Thomas - The Secret to Success

and similar...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In 2018, I have traveled around the world with my girlfriend at the time.

We started the trip in Atlanta and the first destination was Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand).

Then we went to Europe (Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Croatia) and at the end to South America (Colombia).

We traveled for 5 months.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'm really easy going when it comes to couch surfing, we can hang out, we don't have to hang out, whatever is the preference of the other person. We can only have a coffee in the morning or a drink in the evening.

Regarding me, I can share my travel experiences and interesting conversations about life in general.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Cayman Islands, Croatia, United States

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