10 of the Most Important Lessons From the Craziest Year of My Life

With 10 pictures of pizzas that I ate this year.

Technically this is also a pizza-ish thing. From my time in Poznan, Poland.

This year was the year of the tiger — according to the Chinese calendar.

That’s pretty cool. Tigers are one of my favorite animals.

However, for me, 2022 was the year of the pizza.

Pizza is my favorite food. It always has been.

There’s just something about bread and cheese and sauce that wreaks joy and happiness for me. I almost like pizza as much as I like Jiu-Jitsu and writing.

Almost.

In 2022, I had the opportunity to travel a lot (I went on 21 trips), compete in a lot of Jiu-Jitsu, and eat a lot of different post-competition pizzas. It’s been one of the craziest years of my life.

Here are 10 important things that I learned this year, paired with pictures of 10 delicious pizzas from my travels in 2022.

1. The more you travel, the bigger the world gets.

A Margherita pizza from Naples, Italy.