There is a beautiful skillstacking between martial arts and bushcraft/survival. It’s not so much the perfection of a skill, using the 10,000hr myth, but the stacking of a whole bunch of skills that make you successful. An example of this would be during college I line-cooked. Well the timing I learned directly translated to not only pumping times but to blocking punches and any timeline. The greatest timeline ever derives from Dispensation. The main problem with Youtube preachers is that the average person can't hold their attention on something longer than 90 seconds. That and access to a chalkboard on the fly.
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So we have covered in previous posts dealing with Beginning with the end, death of a loved one. In skillstacking, the the most important, to the present, is time management. The absolute fastest way to your goal is through the tutelage of a mentor. My survival mentors include Creek Stewart, Mors Kochanski, Dave Cantebury, Les Stroud, Cody Lundin, Dick Proemke, Nessmuk, Horace Kephart, Rambo.
Just putting in deliberate practice under the tutelage of a mentor, genetics, and age of person learning the skill, all matter more than 10,00hrs of mindless repetitions. Failure is your biggest teacher. The book Ready, Fire, Aim embodies this concept. I find the biggest hurdle is just getting started and producing momentum to help you keep on task. One of my favorite quotes is “Motivation comes after after the action.” Not after you think about it or watch a video, or do a case study. That feeling of accomplishment trumps any criticism or review of performance.
Teddy Roosevelts-The Man in the Arena
It is not the critic who counts; “It is not who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there’s no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory or defeat.”
Skillstacking confidence needs to be emphasized. We need to be in our own corner cheering ourselves on. Not worrying about what other people think. I like to live to impress myself. The best place to be is working yourself so much the the universe good lord will have no choice but to give you your dream. The second best place is on the edge between things. A real life example of this would be hunting on the edges between cover. Forest and field. But this skillstacking is not hunting we are talking about. It’s Karate, Jujitsu, Bushcraft, Dispensation, website building, blog posting, keyword searching, etc. One extremely important subject to add to your skillstacking is risk management.