Being Humbled by Nature and Growing From It | Learning From Failure and Others
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- If we test ourselves against nature without fear of failing, we learn where our boundaries are and how to expand them. Sometimes, the only way to improve ourselves is to understand and admit our weaknesses so that we can work on them.
This is one of those lessons the great outdoors can teach us which not only affects our time indoors, but in our careers and personal lives too.
In one one of my videos a couple of weeks ago I tried a new skill and failed. Mick from Hampshire Outdoors and Survival reached out to me to ehlp and I joined him for a thoroughly fascinating afternoon. We probably spent 20 minutes filming and 5.5 hours laughing and so I hope we can do some more stuff together in the future as he's a great humble guy with a lot of knowledge.
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We teach the children in school- FAIL- First Attempt At Learning.
Simples. Haters will be haters- ignore them. What are they doing to broaden the skills of others. Keep going my friend.
Thank you.
“If it were easy, everybody would do it. Hard is what makes it great.” - Tom Hanks playing the women's baseball coach Jimmy Dugan in the movie "A League of Their Own'". 😁
I use that sentiment when I'm at work, a LOT! Thanks for the support.
Keep up the honest videos Brother. I am the same age as you and am only now learning bushcraft style fire lighting- as a deer hunter we had no interest in different styles of fire lighting. Some of the embarrassing things I have done in the bush are funny - just no witnesses! I have learned a lot from your videos. The other day I bought some duck tape as I heard that is a good fire lighter. Have you ever used that? Here in New Zealand it can be extremely hard to light fires in the low land bush as everything is saturated. Cheers Dave 🇬🇧 🇳🇿
Hi David, duct tape is another one I've heard about and filed away but not actually used in anger. My go to is alcohol hand gel as I always have a pack of that or cotton wool and petroleum jelly but most of the time I just use my gas stove to cook as there are bylaws against lighting fires in the areas I tend to use most of the time. I think same as you I'm not into the 'bushcraft' side of things for bushcraft sake, I just take bits from difference disciplines that make my time outdoors easier and more enjoyable.
Great he reached out to you. I would of but I live in Australia. Feel free to visit.
Yes, was a fascinating (and very entertaining) afternoon with Mick. Its good to share knowledge.
As you say better to know weakness then need in emergency! Cotton woolballs small and take a spark. At a push in emergency can use fluff from jumper.
Definitely.
Watched and liked the last vid good and honest. Keep doing things as you like👍
I appreciate that!
I love your honest videos, dont stop! Wave good bye to the nasty people, we dont want them.
Thanks Jayne, I appreciate that support. I don't really worry too much about the negative people. We have a saying, 'you can please some of the people all of the time, or all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time!'
Your content is very interesting and educating... And I just don't understand why would anyone be upset with your last video... It was still great as it showed that everything requires practice. After watching your last video, I tried using hand sanitizer. Frankly I didn't use it to start fire, just checked that it's very flammable. I was expecting it to be flammable, but it never occurred to me that I could use it to start a fire. Now I'm going to always bring hand sanitizers with me when camping etc. Two birds with one stone - sanitize hands and start the fire (Start fire with sanitized hands :) ).
I learnt that trick during lockdown. I couldn't get hand sanitiser for as everywhere was sold out, so I tried alcohol fuel gel and then I put two and two together. Its not the efficient as it still has a lot of water in it but it does work pretty well.
Brilliant. Thanks.
You're welcome!
You are better off without immature folk posting nasty comments. Furthermore, I have learnt a lot from watching your channel, so don't let immature idiots get you down. 😸
Thanks Phillip, I really appreciate that.
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I missed the comments of the negative responses, I don't read them much. Sometimes its only because someone is in a bad place when they comments or they are hurting inside. It's their issue not yours. I always enjoy your channel
Thanks Mark, I appreciate that.
I was saddened to read about the nasty comments you received. To be honest, I didn't watch the original video, though I watch almost all of your content. I am simply not interested in 'bushcraft' skills at this time in my life, and for where I live. (Hot subtropical island where wood is inevitably wet or eaten by termites/other bugs. No silver birch, but I have used a kind of pine's needles to start a BBQ. I suppose dried sugarcane leaves might be rather flammable too, I'll try next BBQ 😊 And if we tried making bushcraft shelters in our woods, even if we didn't get in trouble from the wood management, we'd have to come up with huge centipede/giant spider/very venomous snake proof ideas 🙀 If the apocalypse comes and we have to survive, well I'll be sticking close to my concrete house even if it is broken.) Anyways, you wrote "complete beginner" on that video thumbnail, so what did people expect? I love dogs, but I don't expect to watch you handling your dogs like military K9s! And the reality is, I don't need my own dog to act like a K9 - he just needs good manners, and to bark if strangers come to my house. I had a GSD for 16 years and that is not what I have now.
So in the end, please keep making content for *most* of your audience. If people don't like that content, they don't need to watch it, or if they don't like your skills, they can just be polite and stay quiet, or be kind like Mick and reach out with an offer.
Thanks for the support. Appreciate it.
Well, if you don't fail you are not even trying ...