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2. When I was a kid I got a Swiss Army
Knife for Christmas.

3. All kinds of tools, knives, scissors, saw,
magnifying glass.

4. I was in boy scouts, so it came in pretty
handy.

5. Later on, as an adult, when I was into
backpacking, I got all kinds of cool
gear.

6. Since backpacking requires you
actually walk a long, long ways (usually
20+ miles over a couple days) with
everything on your back, you've got to
be pretty efficient.

7. So a lot of the equipment is built to
not only be very light and portable,
but also to serve many purposes.

8. Especially the food.

9. Freeze dried.

10. Easy to cook. (Not so tasty!)

11. Compared to "car camping," where
you drive your car right up to the
campsite, and then just unload all the
junk from the trunk. You can get away
with a LOT more (and a lot more
enjoyable) stuff.

12. Huge coolers filled with beer.

13. Lawn chairs.

14. Plenty of wood for a fire.

15. Big thick juicy steaks to BBQ.

16. The skills you carry with you will have
a huge impact on how well you do in
life.

17. The more translatable they are, the
easier you'll be able to switch from job
to job, or situation to situation, and
still come out on top.

18. One of the biggest "presuppositions"
in NLP is that the more flexibility you
have, the better you'll do.

19. While that freeze dried food isn't
something you'd consider "delicious" it
allows you to get to places that very,
very few people have ever seen.

20. Gorgeous valleys way up above the
tree line.

21. Huge meadows filled with beautiful
flowers, and NO people.

22. Only animals.

23. Car camping, on the other hand, only
allows you to go where everybody else
goes.

24. Your skills are similar.

25. If you've got the same skills that
everybody else has got, then you'll
only be able to go where everybody
else goes.

26. On the other hand, if you've got some
very portable skills, that you can take
with you anywhere, and aren't tied to
a specific situation, you'll do much,
much better.

27. What skills are these?

28. Mental skills.

29. Learning skills.

30. Communication skills.

31. People skills.

32. But there's one "meta" skill that will
let you learn all other skills.

33. Being able to look into the unknown
future, and think to yourself, "Yep, I
can do this," and then get busy
learning.

34. Most people cower in fear, and wait
for somebody to hold their hand.

35. Most people wait for step by step
instructions.

36. For somebody else to "go first," so
they know it's safe.

37. What about you?

38. Are you willing to boldly go where
you've never gone before?

39. So you can continue to learn new
things, gain new skills, and reach even
higher levels of success?

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