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Ep. 1015: Foundations - The Deer Don't Beat Us as Often as Our Brains Do · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide
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  Speaker 1: to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, presented by first Light,
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  Speaker 1: First Light, Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host
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  Speaker 1: Tony Peterson.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast, which
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  Speaker 2: is brought to you by first Light.
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  Speaker 3: I'm your host, Sony Peterson.
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  Speaker 2: In today's episode is all about how difficult deer hunting
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  Speaker 2: often is and what we can do to make it
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  Speaker 2: a little bit easier in a way that you probably
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  Speaker 2: don't expect. The impetus for this podcast came from explaining
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  Speaker 2: shed hunting to my daughters.
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  Speaker 3: If you can believe that, well you should, because it's true.
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  Speaker 2: When it comes to white tail hunting, I find myself
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  Speaker 2: constantly stuck between explaining what are simple concepts but that
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  Speaker 2: don't play out in the real world very easily or simply.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the time, there's a hard truth about white
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  Speaker 2: tail hunting that will a lot of us don't really
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  Speaker 2: want to acknowledge, but it's tied to a greater aspect
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  Speaker 2: of light. Now, if you go back a couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks and listen to an episode that I did with
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  Speaker 2: Mark on our regular Ware to Hunt podcast. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to hear all about this, but I'm also going to
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  Speaker 2: break it down in more detail right now so we
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  Speaker 2: can understand how to literally retrain our brains to be
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  Speaker 2: better not only at white tail hunting, but a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot of stuff. Have you ever noticed how the people
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  Speaker 2: who seem to be able to do difficult things can
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  Speaker 2: often do a variety of difficult things. I thought about
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  Speaker 2: this at Mediator recently when I was thinking about how
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  Speaker 2: many of my co workers have authored books. Now, I've
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  Speaker 2: written a handful, and while they can be enjoyable at times,
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  Speaker 2: it's also just a grind in a lot of ways,
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  Speaker 2: especially once the rough draft is complete and it's time
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  Speaker 2: to get down to the nitty gritty parts. But then
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  Speaker 2: it occurred to me that a hell of a lot
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  Speaker 2: of my coworkers who also have written books, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're also in good shape, and a lot of them
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  Speaker 2: play instruments. That's not an accident. And I haven't even
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  Speaker 2: gotten into the hunting part yet. You see, inside of
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  Speaker 2: our brains is this thing called the anterior mid singular cortex,
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  Speaker 2: which is a region of the brain that is responsible
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  Speaker 2: for helping us overcome difficulty and find motivation, and it
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  Speaker 2: helps us with effort. What's bonkers about this is that
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  Speaker 2: the anterior mid singular cortex can grow or shrink depending
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  Speaker 2: on what you do with yourself, what decisions you make,
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  Speaker 2: the more difficult things you do, things that you don't
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  Speaker 2: want to do, you know, the stuff that feels like
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  Speaker 2: a struggle that helps this region of your brain grow.
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  Speaker 2: If you do fewer things that challenge yourself and feel
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  Speaker 2: like a struggle, that part of the brain's gonna shrink.
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  Speaker 2: Our brains evolve to conserve energy and keep us safe.
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  Speaker 2: And this is a part of the reason why we
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  Speaker 2: resist discomfort so much. But we need it and if
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  Speaker 2: we use it correctly, it helps us. Now, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to go full David Goggins here, but pay attention
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  Speaker 2: to this because it's important. The more you push yourself
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  Speaker 2: through discomfort, the more you'll be able to push yourself
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  Speaker 2: through discomfort. Struggle that scares us off leads to more
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  Speaker 2: struggle that will scare us off. When it comes to
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  Speaker 2: dieting or exercise, or killing public land white tails or
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  Speaker 2: saving up for that dream out hunt. We mostly fail.
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  Speaker 2: Yet the people who figure out how to get through
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  Speaker 2: just one of those things are more likely to get
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  Speaker 2: through all of them. This is intuitive if you pay
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  Speaker 2: attention to the people in your life, but also no accident.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that those people start with more willpower or
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  Speaker 2: discipline or have some secret genetic code that others just
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  Speaker 2: don't possess. It's that they work through struggle and discomfort,
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  Speaker 2: and their brains changed to allow them to keep working
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  Speaker 2: through struggle and discomfort. People say to me all of
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  Speaker 2: the time that they hate running, so they can't do it.
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  Speaker 2: They think because they see someone like cam Hagn's running
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  Speaker 2: all of the time, that he must love it. They
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  Speaker 2: say that to me as well, but they're wrong. I
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  Speaker 2: freaking hate running. I rarely, rarely look forward to it,
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  Speaker 2: but I never regret it when I'm finished. It's always
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  Speaker 2: worth it. That's not something I was born with. It's
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  Speaker 2: just a product of forcing myself to lace up my
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  Speaker 2: on clouds and go when I don't want to, which
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  Speaker 2: is pretty much every time. And that last part matters
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  Speaker 2: a lot. If you want to make your anterior mid
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  Speaker 2: singulate cortex grow, you have to do things that you
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  Speaker 2: don't want to do. If you wake up and you
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  Speaker 2: absolutely love everything about going for a run.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't work.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a bad thing, mind you, that'd be great,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not going to help you get through other
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  Speaker 2: unrelated difficult tasks. Do you know what is a pretty
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  Speaker 2: difficult task that we are constantly trying to make easier
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  Speaker 2: for ourselves. Yep, golf, Just kidding. It's deer hunting. The
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  Speaker 2: problem with deer hunting, at least in today's world, is
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  Speaker 2: that it looks just like getting in shape, or running
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  Speaker 2: one hundred mile mountain marathons, or climbing some building in
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  Speaker 2: Taiwan while Netflix's film crew follows you up.
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  Speaker 3: We are constantly.
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  Speaker 2: Exposed to the people who have already cracked the code
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  Speaker 2: for doing difficult stuff. And when they do difficult stuff,
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  Speaker 2: it not only looks easy to us, but they're also
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  Speaker 2: trying to make it look easy. But it's not easy
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  Speaker 2: to us, and there is often a huge disparity there
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  Speaker 2: in the realm of deer hunting. It makes it look
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  Speaker 2: like there is a secret strategy or some type of
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  Speaker 2: tactic that will just take us from not being big
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  Speaker 2: buck killers to being big buck killers, but it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: work that way. The people who are in really great
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  Speaker 2: shape who also learn how to play guitar and who
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  Speaker 2: also can kill public land bull elk every season, aren't
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  Speaker 2: capable of that stuff simply because they are built different
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  Speaker 2: from most folks. It's that they actively pursue difficult things.
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  Speaker 2: So much of natural talent, which definitely exists, is just
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  Speaker 2: a reflection of this reality. And don't get me wrong,
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  Speaker 2: deer hunting for the vast majority of hunters is difficult,
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  Speaker 2: so difficult that they often don't fill tags, and when
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  Speaker 2: you break it down to who kills big bucks and
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  Speaker 2: who doesn't, that number shrinks further. Look, this can be
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  Speaker 2: hacked through enough money or a banging spot, which I've
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  Speaker 2: talked about plenty, but for most folks who don't have
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  Speaker 2: access to either or both, this is not an easy
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  Speaker 2: thing to do, which is a huge reason and why
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  Speaker 2: we love it now. I've killed some really big bucks
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  Speaker 2: in my life on various hunts, and I can tell
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  Speaker 2: you they were fun, really fun, but they didn't mean
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  Speaker 2: that much to me. In fact, the buck that has
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  Speaker 2: been my favorite in a hell of a lot of
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  Speaker 2: seasons is the eight pointer I killed in Wisconsin last year,
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  Speaker 2: because it took me eighteen seasons over there to finally
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  Speaker 2: kill a legit pope and young buck. I could write
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  Speaker 2: a book about my struggles just in that one county,
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  Speaker 2: and eventually might just do that for the hell of it.
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  Speaker 2: I've killed other bucks, you know, in Nebraska and Illinois
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  Speaker 2: and Iowa and Texas and a handful of states that
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  Speaker 2: didn't challenge me hardly at all. And while they were
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  Speaker 2: all fun and there were lessons I took away with each,
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  Speaker 2: none of them felt like that Wisconsin buck. Struggle, in
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  Speaker 2: a weird way, is our friend. Not because it keeps
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  Speaker 2: us from success, which it does, but because if we
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  Speaker 2: just do what we need to anyway, struggle rewires our
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  Speaker 2: brain to do difficult stuff more easily. Now you might
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  Speaker 2: be thinking, sweet dude, but what do I have to
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  Speaker 2: do to be able to embrace discomfort and eventually become
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  Speaker 2: the mighty white hunter that you are. Well, science has
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  Speaker 2: pretty much figured this out, which is good news, and
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  Speaker 2: it starts with negotiation. Think about how often you've had
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to hunt outside of the rut or pre
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  Speaker 2: rut October tenth and you've sat there in your office
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  Speaker 2: or on the job site and thought, is it worth.
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  Speaker 3: It to go sit tonight?
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  Speaker 2: The wind is out of the west, so I could
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  Speaker 2: sit this stand or this blind. Then imagine how easy
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  Speaker 2: it is to say to yourself, but it is the lull.
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  Speaker 3: It's not right.
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  Speaker 2: The bucks aren't going to move, and my odds are
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  Speaker 2: really low, So you don't go. You're negotiating with yourself
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  Speaker 2: to reach a conclusion you already wanted to reach because
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  Speaker 2: you thought going out wouldn't result in a dead big buck.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just better to not go. A better way
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  Speaker 2: to look at this would be I have the evening
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  Speaker 2: to go hunting, to go do the thing I love
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  Speaker 2: more than anything in the world. Here are the conditions,
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  Speaker 2: and now I'm going to solve for how to hunt
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  Speaker 2: where a big buck might go in them. Then you
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  Speaker 2: go hunting. You probably won't kill a big one, but
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  Speaker 2: getting over that mental hurdle and sneaking in with a
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  Speaker 2: saddle or a hang on or building a natural blind
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  Speaker 2: and trying is the thing that matters the most. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you kill big bucks that way. Also, not negotiating yourself
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  Speaker 2: out of hunting because it will be easier to not go,
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  Speaker 2: that one evening on stand or in blind will generally
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  Speaker 2: always be worth it. It's a small meaningful step on
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  Speaker 2: the path to becoming the kind of deer hunter who
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  Speaker 2: will go when the going probably sucks. It's a small step,
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  Speaker 2: but it's important because small steps are the way you
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  Speaker 2: level up and rewire your brain. This is something I
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  Speaker 2: can't stress enough. But we are sold this process or
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  Speaker 2: this strategy, or this big wholesale change to finally be
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  Speaker 2: super skinny or be able to bench three hundred pounds
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  Speaker 2: or kill public land bucks every season. But the big
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  Speaker 2: moves don't stick usually, And anyone who has gone from
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  Speaker 2: no exercise for years to trying to work out six
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  Speaker 2: days a week knows how hard it is to mentally
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  Speaker 2: get there.
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  Speaker 3: It's damn I'm near impossible.
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  Speaker 2: Baby steps matter, and just going out during the lull
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  Speaker 2: when you know for a fact you won't see a
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  Speaker 2: big one, is a huge step. And what I learned
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  Speaker 2: from that is that if I hunt the lull enough,
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  Speaker 2: I almost always see big ones, and I often kill them,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes on public land, likely because most folks negotiated themselves
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  Speaker 2: out of hunting, and the dear no damn well when
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  Speaker 2: fewer hunters are in the woods with them and they
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  Speaker 2: move more. Another way to look at this is the
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  Speaker 2: all day sit thing most hunters won't do it because
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  Speaker 2: it's too big of an ask for them, So go
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  Speaker 2: sit an extra hour. If you usually would leave the
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  Speaker 2: woods at ten am, figure out a way to just
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  Speaker 2: sit until eleven. Or if you'd usually go out at
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  Speaker 2: two pm for the evening sit, go at one. You're
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  Speaker 2: doing a small thing you don't want to. But when
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  Speaker 2: you get in at one and a buck eventually cruises
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  Speaker 2: by at one point fifteen, the next time you can hunt,
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  Speaker 2: you'll have your happy ass in that stand at twelve thirty.
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  Speaker 3: There is also a very.
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  Speaker 2: GoGG andesque component of this whole thing as well, which
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  Speaker 2: involves not viewing the struggle as painful but instead as growth.
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  Speaker 2: I know this is kind of woo woo, but think
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  Speaker 2: about how your attitude shapes the enjoyment of your hunts.
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  Speaker 2: If you go out and expect to see nothing, your
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  Speaker 2: effort and results will generally reflect that. That's because we
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  Speaker 2: set the bar too high, and instead should view it
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  Speaker 2: not as pass or fail depending on a big buck encounter,
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  Speaker 2: but pass or failed depending on whether we tried something
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  Speaker 2: new and saw it through. I'd rather blank on a
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  Speaker 2: hunt and learn something, then skip a hunt and feel
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  Speaker 2: like I did a good job by literally not doing
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  Speaker 2: the thing I love the most in the world. I
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  Speaker 2: look at this kind of thing like fishing. I'd rather
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  Speaker 2: make more cast than fewer, because the more times I cast,
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  Speaker 2: the more likely it is that I'll catch some fish.
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  Speaker 3: Look.
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  Speaker 2: I know, on paper this all sounds great, but there
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  Speaker 2: is a component of it that is kind of non negotiable.
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  Speaker 3: Setting goals.
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  Speaker 2: I know people grow when they hear that, but goals
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  Speaker 2: are super important. The reason I run so much, or
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  Speaker 2: at least the thing that keeps me accountable, is that
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  Speaker 2: I set yearly goals for miles. When I turned forty,
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  Speaker 2: a buddy and I both set a running goal of
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  Speaker 2: one thousand miles for the year. That was a lot
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  Speaker 2: more miles than a year than I'd ever run, and
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  Speaker 2: it took me a seven mile er on New Year's
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  Speaker 2: even a blizzard to cross that threshold, but I did
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  Speaker 2: cross it, And ever since then, I've set a yearly goal.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not something I dread, but something I used
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  Speaker 2: to keep myself honest. I know this shit sounds hokey,
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  Speaker 2: but it works. But it only really works once you
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  Speaker 2: train your brain that you will keep doing something difficult
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  Speaker 2: until you're done. Now, with white tails, we all kind
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  Speaker 2: of set goals, even if they're loose goals, but they're
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  Speaker 2: generally based around the wrong thing. We go I killed
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  Speaker 2: a one thirty five last year, so I want something
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  Speaker 2: bigger this year. Or I killed a six pointer last
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  Speaker 2: year and now I want something that's seven or eight
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  Speaker 2: points or more, or you know, I want a five
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  Speaker 2: year old buck, and anything younger gets a pass. Look,
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  Speaker 2: if you have that money spot, this might be all
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  Speaker 2: you need to do because you're hunting. Isn't all that
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  Speaker 2: difficult and the formula is easy to follow. But for
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  Speaker 2: a lot of us, a goal of shooting x size
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  Speaker 2: of deer keeps us out of the woods a lot,
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  Speaker 2: and it's generally a great way to feel let down
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  Speaker 2: by most of our hunts. A goal instead to maybe
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  Speaker 2: arrow your first dear off the ground without a blind,
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  Speaker 2: or to hunt every chance you can, or to try
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  Speaker 2: to kill an october deer in the woods when all
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  Speaker 2: you've ever hunted is field edges or whatever. It's a
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  Speaker 2: different thing. It takes the focus off of a dead buck,
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  Speaker 2: and it puts on us actually doing something that could
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  Speaker 2: lead to us encountering more deer, which reinforces our behavior
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  Speaker 2: and yes, eventually usually leads to big dead bucks over time.
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  Speaker 2: The last component of this that I don't adhere too much,
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  Speaker 2: but I guess I kind of do through my photography,
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  Speaker 2: is to track your progress. I use a running app
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  Speaker 2: on my phone that tallies up my miles and gives
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  Speaker 2: me a whole bunch of stats, so I can see
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  Speaker 2: whether I'm slacking or right on track, or crushing it
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  Speaker 2: and getting ahead of my pace a little bit. But
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  Speaker 2: with deer, you know some hunter's journal, most don't, and
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  Speaker 2: most don't keep track of their progress. They hunt when
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  Speaker 2: the conditions are good, kill or don't kill, and then
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  Speaker 2: wait for the next opportunity. But this doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 2: you can't do something else difficult and keep track, which
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  Speaker 2: leads to being able to see through the discomfort of
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  Speaker 2: other difficult tasks. The result in the long term is
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  Speaker 2: that you are literally making yourself mentally tougher. When that
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  Speaker 2: metaphorical snowball starts rolling in the right direction, it makes
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  Speaker 2: life better and all aspects of deer hunting a little
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  Speaker 2: easier to embrace. I explain this sort of to my
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  Speaker 2: daughters recently, when we put on quite a few miles
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  Speaker 2: to find zero antlers in a long weekend of trekking
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  Speaker 2: through the woods. They discouraged about not finding antlers, but
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  Speaker 2: I told them that I mostly don't find antlers and
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  Speaker 2: that going shed hunting is worth it anyway, because it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's just good to go walk through the woods. Most
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  Speaker 2: of what we do with deer hunting is tethered to
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  Speaker 2: our eventual success and in a different but equally relevant way,
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  Speaker 2: our failures. If you can learn to go shed hunting
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  Speaker 2: when you don't expect to find one, sometimes you will
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  Speaker 2: find one, and that's awesome, But when you don't, you've
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  Speaker 2: still done something worthwhile, and your brain is going to
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  Speaker 2: reward you for that. It makes it easier to go
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  Speaker 2: winter scouting when you're having a hard time mustering up
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  Speaker 2: the energy to go into the woods and try to
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  Speaker 2: a vision what that work will turn out at in
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  Speaker 2: like nine or ten months.
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  Speaker 3: I've often thought about.
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  Speaker 2: The first big buck I killed and how it's just
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  Speaker 2: opened the floodgates to killing more big bucks, and how
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  Speaker 2: I've seen the same thing in my hunting buddies. It
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  Speaker 2: took me twelve seasons of hunting really really hard to
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  Speaker 2: kill that buck, and I was convinced it was just
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  Speaker 2: never going to happen. I believed it. I expected to
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  Speaker 2: screw up, and I almost always did, and the whole
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  Speaker 2: thing just felt impossible. Then I killed a big old
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  Speaker 2: fourteen pointer in a beanfield. It's now twenty years later,
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  Speaker 2: and I've killed big bucks pretty much every year since.
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  Speaker 2: The realization that something that difficult is suddenly doable changes us,
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  Speaker 2: and the fact that a hell of a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the big ones since then haven't been easy only reinforces
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  Speaker 2: that truth. This is one of the reasons a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people who start hunting and decide that it's only
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  Speaker 2: a big bucks or nothing have such a hard time.
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  Speaker 2: When killing a two year old eight pointer in a
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  Speaker 2: whole season is really difficult, killing one hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 2: inch er as your first buck is nearly impossible, and
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  Speaker 2: your brain knows it. But killing that two year old
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  Speaker 2: shows you what's possible. It makes it seem like a
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  Speaker 2: three year old isn't a crazy challenge, but is still
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  Speaker 2: definitely a challenge. I guess the best way to frame
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  Speaker 2: this up before I sign off is this, When we
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  Speaker 2: opt out of doing something challenging, it's usually not because
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  Speaker 2: we physically can't do that thing. It's because our brains
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  Speaker 2: make the case that it won't be worth it, and
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  Speaker 2: we buy into that reasoning. But our brains aren't our
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  Speaker 2: friends in a lot of ways, because they are looking
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  Speaker 2: for the easy way out to help us preserve energy
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  Speaker 2: and avoid potential failure. This is why it's so difficult,
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  Speaker 2: but also why the folks who break through that membrane
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  Speaker 2: and learn that the difficult stuff is worth it are
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  Speaker 2: the ones who can go anywhere and hunt pretty much
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  Speaker 2: anything they get a tag for. And while they won't
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  Speaker 2: always be successful because that's how this stuff goes, they
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  Speaker 2: are usually far far more successful than the average hunter.
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  Speaker 2: They've conditioned themselves to just lean into the struggle and
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  Speaker 2: the discomfort because they know, on the other side, it's
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  Speaker 2: always worth it. If you want to be a better
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  Speaker 2: deer hunter, forget what you can buy for a second
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  Speaker 2: and think about what work you do. Avoid in that
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  Speaker 2: harsh truth is the path to killing more big bucks.
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  Speaker 2: And while it might seem daunting or not worth it,
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  Speaker 2: remember that's just your shrunken anti mid singulate cortex talking.
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  Speaker 2: Don't listen to it. Go do the difficult thing and
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  Speaker 2: force that sucker to grow. You won't regret it. You
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  Speaker 2: also won't regret coming back next week because I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to talk about why we should all try to find
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  Speaker 2: a new place to hunt and just how to go
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  Speaker 2: about that process. Right now, that's it for this episode.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Tony Peterson.
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