We Should All Die Learning...
The Turning Feral Journal - Day 11
Day 11: As someone new coming into the sustainability space there is such a vast ocean of knowledge to try and get your hands around. Then, figuring out what’s the most high-value thing to learn first can feel overwhelming. Add in all of the influencers pushing their particular specialty (e.g. self-defense, regenerative ag, homesteading, prepping, and hunting to name a few) and it can be downright exhausting before you even make it out of the gate!
So what to do? Well, I don’t have a carte blanche answer here because everyone is different. But for me and my family, we have a list that we are working on in priority order of what brings us joy and benefits our sustainability goals. We have started by being an inch deep and a mile wide over tons of subjects that give us an idea of how the concept works, and topics that catch our personal interest we make space for a deeper dive.
For me, trapping and hunting has taken the majority of my deep dive energy, where things like taxidermy, electrical work, tree-falling, and long range shooting have all remained more surface level. My wife has focused her deep dive energy more on construction-esque tasks, bread making, and backpacking/camping needs, with a myriad of other surface-level interests on her plate that she has been exploring.
When you put our efforts together we start to paint a broad sustainability picture that we are happy with, because as we age and our kids grow we know our interest areas will change, and we are OK with that. The overarching motivation for us is to always be learning, folks!
Daily Prompt: What does your priority learning list look like? What areas of sustainability are you most interested in that you would like to deep dive into? What areas could you get by with just doing a veneer passing? Write them down here:
Motivational Passage:
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
― Henry Ford
Rewilding Action: After you write down the list of things you want to learn, take some time to google information on your highest priority focus areas. If there are classes (in person or online) you can take to get some expert instruction, sign up! I for one am going to be (re) taking a great long range shooting course here soon to begin a deep dive into this interest area of mine.