Knowledge is Power Audio Program

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Of the three primary elements in survival training and preparedness Knowledge is the first. I share the importance of learning and 6 ways to learn survival information. To illustrate I share stories from real survival situations demonstrating how various kinds of knowledge saved lives. Also discussed is how Knowledge interfaces with the other two elements of survival, Skills and Gear.

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wilderness innovation radio hello this is perry peacock with wilderness innovation our the subject of our audio program today is is survival knowledge and can have that plays a role in our lives in helping us to get through some kind of a difficult situation that we may be in whether it's out in the woods an urban type situation or whatever it may be knowledge is is a nice thing because it's something that we can carry with us in our brains you know if we've don't have a book or a manual or a video or something with this you know at all times whatever we've plugged into our brain is is capable of being retrieved out of our brain and put into action to to to do something to help help us or benefit us in our life and so what I want to do tonight or today in this program is we talk about knowledge i want to get just a few basic concept kind of down and kind of out of the way and then most of the time most of the of the program I want to illustrate some of the concepts by stories from my own life some things I've done or been through maybe maybe not even good things things I did wrong you know we all do that at least I do plenty of that and also from possibly a number of the books that I've read over the years some things there that will illustrate knowledge and kind of help kind of help us to realize the value of knowledge and kind of what it can do for us and practical application so starting out one of the first things that came to my mind was was that saying that I'm sure we've all heard over the years is from Lord bacon back in the leave 1700s or something like that his statement knowledge is power or I think as it's been maybe more correctly put down knowledge itself is power and that really a a lot of times we don't think about it that much we you know we get in our survival worldly think about making shelter to debris Hut and we think about fire and fishing and hunting and figure for traps and you know we think about first aid and what plants we can eat and how to build a signal fire and we you know we think about all those things and we don't sit down and and take a thought of of the knowledge I where did the knowledge to do those things come from why you know if we're able to do that how did we learn to do that what where did we where do we pick that up at and and I think you know one of the key things about about this survival knowledge and the statement of bacon saying knowledge itself is power is that is if knowledge is power if we have more knowledge we have more power or in other words we have more ability really gives us more options right so so that's it that like if you have knowledge that means you have ideas you have concepts you have things floating around in your head ideas of what you can do the more of those you have in your mind the more power you have or the more ability you have to change and improve your condition so that's why knowledge itself is power it gives you the power to change your your survival situation whether like I say it's urban ore or whether it's way out in the sticks somewhere doesn't matter the situation whatever knowledge you have can be carried with you in your brain and be brought to use to to improve your situation nice i said you know at the beginning that i wanted to I wanted to kind of lay a little foundation before we got started so it kind of gives a kind of a ground set up and everything kind of a place to start from and one of those things is is to me I think of three basic areas when I think of survival and this is just my own personal you know everybody has their own way doing things this to me this is something that puts it into my head in a way that I can envision it in and it kind of enables me to divide everything up put everything in a category it goes in and so I think about survival in the same way that I think of fire you know you got your fire triangle you know you have to have heat you have to have oxygen and you have to have fuel for fire and I think and I look at it in the same terms of survival and and that is there's three basic categories three basic things that we need to have in order to survive and that's whether we're talking day to day in our regular lives or whether you know it sat in some situation that we got ourselves into and so I those that triangle to me is knowledge skills and gear and i'll give it a brief definition of what i consider those knowledge is the fact that's the foundation item if if you don't have knowledge how can you really even do anything let's just stumble onto it so knowledge is the foundation that makes the other stuff possible to me skills that's to me that's the action part of things that's where that's where things happen that's where we take the knowledge we've learned and we develop skills we learn skills we practice skills and we put that knowledge to work with skills and so we're talking about our motor skills or you know working with our hands or feet our arms or you know putting everything together to do something to create something to make a tool make a shelter you know whatever it might be that's that skills part of what I look at a skill is that's also the ability to create in other words you've you've studied something you've learned something you have some knowledge and now you're able to take that with skills and turn that thought in your head into something in reality so that's part of skills now the third item is gear and that's that's either gear that you take with you that's part of your kit part of your you know your your normal situation or whatever you have in your vehicle your ATV snowmobile airplane whatever it may be and it also includes gear that you might fashion out of natural materials from wherever you are whether it's an urban setting that you're using pallets and plywood or whether you know whether you're out in a stick somewhere and you're using a you're using pine boughs and stuff like that or a down pine tree or whether you're out in the Great Basin desert or something like that and you're here you're using sagebrush as some kind of a shelter or juniper tree or something like that whether it's a cave in a mountain or pile up rocks whatever it is gear is that physical thing that you find or create with combining skills and a knowledge to kind of start off with one of my favorite movies and I don't know why exactly i don't know i like the scenery in it and i like i just kind of like the the story it's cool but but anyway and it's in it's a fictional tale it's called the edge you've probably made many of you probably seen the movie or whatever but you know it's about a essentially about a wealthy man that all his life just love books love to study to read to learn I was kind of his thing you know he's always got his nose in a book whenever he wasn't doing something else and in part of the story you know there's first people that would like to have some of what he has and some of them try to contrive kind of way to get it and a situation evolves into a essentially survival situation and and this guy played by Anthony Hopkins basically winds up able to retrieve that knowledge of what he's studied and apply it to the airplane crash that they're in their conditions running into bears and cold weather and you know finding directions north south east west whatever all those all those various kind of things he's able to take the statement of another we're going to die you know constantly we're going to die out here and he's saying we're not gonna die you know we have abilities we you know we can do things we can make things better for ourselves so in the end he's able to survive through using his knowledge to accomplish some things and to get through the situation so that's a fictional deal but we'll get into some real stories here in a moment I do want to just to just think about this just think about I don't know if you ever do or not but how incredible of a thing that your or the organ of the brain how credible that is and you know it said that well it's actually true i mean we probably had experience of this i I remember things there's some things at certain times when something is triggered in my mind or some event happens you know I'm I'm almost 60 years old now and I can remember 50 55 years ago certain things that happened and they're in when this stimulates my mind it like it comes in there so clear as if it was yesterday and and we know that our brains are recording keeping track of everything we've thought or done everything that's happened we've observed

we've learned for our whole life's and it's possible and like brain surgeons suppose guys know that they can stimulate certain parts of the brain and have and have people recall with incredible detail something that obscure from their life somewhere and so we know the capability is there that everything that you study is possible to be retrieved when you need it the most and one other thing to go along with that is just like with exercise or anything else when we exercise our brains when we study and try to learn we keep that brain more actively keep the little connecting the little links that connect different bits of knowledge together the more connections and different links we have often times we find it's easier to remember those things and so you know if we have active program of studying and learning which you know I personally I I love it anyway so I mean a good part of my life I've always especially reading I love to read I'm always reading something and so you know I'm putting a lot of junk in my file not junk but putting a lot of stuff in my in my mind I was not jump but you know and in often times when I'm trying to think through a problem or whatever sometimes of something kind of unrelated but will pop into my mind but it comes in such a way as as to give me an idea for a solution to something else so it's good to knowledge is good because to me it's like giving ourselves resources you know if you're like I did a trek here last wells doing the summer out on the west desert and there's there's zero water there's no water in the area where I went for the whole time I was out there I had to take everything with me that I used other than I had one little one stash at one point that I'd pre pre it's pre-staged I guess you could say in case of emergency but you know i was out there and Ferb there's very little trees no water very little wildlife very not even a lot of plant life and so the you know your resources were very limited and and I look at that like your brain you know like do you want your brain to be that desert yeah that's limited in resources or do you want your brain to be the you know the forest full of every kind of thing and a stream running through it and animals and plants and trees and bushes and flowers and you know so I look at it like that put stuff into your brain fill it up with knowledge and you know you'll have you'll have more too you'll have more ability more options when the time comes and I always consider that knowledge comes ahead of skills as I said because how can you execute a skill if you don't know about it yet it's it's kind of like you got to have the knowledge from somewhere in order to even do it do a skill one thing I would point out is it's well some people are my guess I could say some people are more capable than others in a situation but for the most part most people are not able to simply go from reading a book watching a video or a movie and then getting out in a live situation and all of a sudden being able to plug that knowledge into their hands and arms and legs and all that sort of thing and do something really skillful generally skills require practice and practice and practice so I would point that out now like I could say some people are capable of making knowledge go to skills very easily and effective and but most of us are not but regardless

practice in skills never hurts if nothing else even not even not even the ability to actually do it a lot of times in the practice we learn more efficient ways to do things so just keep that in mind I don't want to get off onto skills because that's a whole another program or two now you know if you're bending you don't love them survival at all for very long you've probably read a military manual somewhere or read a book somewhere I know many people Cody Lundin as it has many other people in there's the acronym stop sto p and that acronym stands for stop think observe and plan and and basically one of the most important things is to stop because oftentimes whether we you know like say we break down somewhere everybody always use the last example which you know obviously that could happen but most of the time you know a lot of times it's just we break some breaks or something you know but regardless it's pointless for us to just just go around like I liken it to like a pin a bottle and a pinball machine bouncing all over the place I mean that's pointless to get into that so it's important to stop and think about what just happened where we're at you know if you just broke down how did it happen what went on sometimes it's a simple thing you know a chain slipped off a gear a pin came out somewhere a bolt came off you know I don't know oftentimes it's a simple thing but if we don't take the time to stop and think about it and we just start running around bounced around like a pinball then we just wear ourselves out worry ourselves up perhaps get ourselves in more danger and where we might have sat down and thought about it for five minutes and realize it was been on our way so anyway I don't want to get real heavily into the acronym stop but it's worth pointing out that it's stopping thinking about things where we're at what happened if we did become lost where when was the last time that we knew we were not lost you know so sometimes you can kind of back-trace yourself and kind of figure it out and then observe which is kind of observing conditions observing resources where you're at where you need to get to what you need to do and then you take all those things put that together and make a plan so that you're not just helter skelter just going about things but you actually have a direction you actually you know actually going to get somewhere with it so yeah I know Cody I think it was Cody Lundin in one of his books he adds the letter A onto the end of stopped because he said I think he said he had swedish ancestry or something and they spell it sto PA and he is for action act do it do something about it you know you make a plan and don't act on the plan doesn't really do much you know so anyway that's really I guess before I get off of the stop acronym the main thing I want to point out there is that when it comes time for planning the knowledge that you have from your studies will come back into your mind because now you're thinking about okay what can I do so because you've gone through this whole procedure of the stop scenario when you're executing that procedure it actually stimulates your brain your brain starts researching back in now your brains got it's a little search engine you know it's got it's a little Google search engine going in there and and and so your your brain starts firing back answers to your solutions and then you can take those and weigh those out choose you know which is the best one to go by so that's really one of the reasons i want to point out that because if if in your training that's something that you would typically do and i would recommend it is to execute that sort of a situation the stop procedure whatever knowledge you have is going to be to your advantage when you do that all right now quickly talking about where does word as knowledge come from and how do you know how do you learn and we don't need to spend a big deal of time on it but just want to point out you know there to me I see six different ways that I think that we obtain knowledge and one of them is reading reading or reading studying that sort of thing and that's one of my primary ways I love reading so I do a lot of that and I consider that to be an active method of obtaining knowledge because you're you're having to kind of concentrate as a read to make those words get into your brain and mean something and to comprehend them and and when i'm reading I've and if I have a book I'm making notes all other place underlining things highlighting things writing things on the margins making notes or thoughts that sort of thing so when i read i am reading and studying that helps me to remember and that sort of thing another method is video or visual TV movies youtube's or just things that we see or observe and that's kind of to me kind of a passive method not that that's bad or anything but oftentimes it's easier for our mind to wander off because we're just sitting there watching a screen it's easy to kind of you know get your let your mind wander at times but it's still a very valuable way because it does give you does give you visual learning what are the one of the real effective ways as classes or schooling or seminars or some kind of a training scenario deal and that's kind of an interactive thing because typically you're going to hear something you may read something you may watch something and then typically in those situations are also going to do something an action a skill and so those are very valuable experience is another way sometimes you know we always hear I learn by experience and commonly that's called the school of hard knocks hitter the reason for that is the old saying and I don't know who said it but I just remember hearing it all my life experience is a great teacher but had to remember one thing experience gives the test first and the lesson afterwards so that's it's important to remember as if you're planning on learning by experience you're going to have that trial that tests that hard time and then you're gonna have to figure things out and afterwards look back on it and think okay that's what I learned so experience is not a preparedness kind of thing I mean once you've had the experience you've learned something but you know but it is a good teacher I mean when you go through something think about the times in your life you know you've learned something when I get through these last two real quickly and then get into some of these stories and kind of illustrate some of this real quickly here in the time we have left another thing to think about knowledge comes also from innate sense in other words it's just a party or being part of who you are possibly something you've inherited from parents or grandparents some ancestor it's kind of you know everybody typically has some kind of thing that comes easy to them and some of these kind of things are Simoes innate senses or innate abilities and there's just you know you wind up there are some things that nobody has to tell you you just seem to know it and so that's kind of that in eight cents so that's at something there that is there and the last thing I think of is the senses your sight smell sound touch etc I consider also conversation as part of that senses learning type of a thing in this in the sense of sound and that sort of thing and and I you know you look at that and that's like plant identification or something like that you know you can see something in a book or whatever but when you get out there say you're out there with somebody that knows and the point out hey there's you know there's miner's lettuce or there's shepherd's purse or there's you know whatever there's mentor there's they're stinging nettle there's a there's a touch one you touch stinging now you know I had stinging nettle but seeing seeing a plant being able to smell it to to hear an animal or whatever different things like hear an elk viewing at night or something like that you know being able to touch something or feel something all these kind of things are also ways of learning and when we combine multiple ways it helps build more links in our brain it helps us to recall things easier so that's that's basically my little spiel on knowledge and stuff and I want to illustrate a few a few things about knowledge just with some stories and that sort of thing one of them I'll give a story about early in my life when I was considerably younger than I am now and quite a bit less experienced but nevertheless at that time I had as a as a child and a youth I was always interested in survival and stuff and I played around with it good bit of my life just having fun with it here and there but got out on a on a deer hunting type thing guiding some people into an area that I knew very well and far as deer population we got into there and and as will happen in the mountains especially some of the higher altitudes and stuff sometimes you get a change in condition very rapidly that you hadn't anticipated excuse me and that was the case here wound up in a storm coming up that is quite quite windy rainy turned to snow back to rain back to snow back to rain back to snow and eventually just to snow and we were not prepared at all for that we had windbreakers on and we're hiking way above our camp to scouting out the day before the opening of the hunt and went up over the mountain ridge and drop down into another valley at this lake that we plan to plan to do some hunting out and we got trapped on the other side of the mountain there and just just unreasonable to try to get back up over the top and back down or a camp so we we had to make do with what we had and where we were at not much in the way of any kind of trees or anything that mostly mostly knee-high dry grass that was now wet from all the rain and snow and everything and sagebrush and that was about all about all there was around there well do to do the knowledge that I had for my studies experiences things I'd tried things I'd read about I knew that you know we would be in danger of hypothermia if we didn't do something fairly quickly to get ourselves sheltered get ourselves warmed up and and so we basically we constructed out of sagebrush a big ring or donut I guess you could call it big enough for three of us to lay in head head to foot head to foot head to foot with the fire in the middle and and we built this ring of sagebrush about five five or six feet high and three feet thick all the way around us and it blocked the wind from us very effectively blocked a lot of the rain and snow and and we were able to keep a nice warm fire kept us nice and warm and cozy and we slept through the night we had our firewood right there to throw on the fire as it died down we kept it easily going through the night woke up in the morning with four or five inches of snow on the ground and quite cold and we're so cozy where we are at we almost didn't want to get up and go hunting but but a little bit of knowledge in there helped us in both in the fire building wood which was difficult under the circumstances and also coming up with a shelter option out in the middle of the grass and sagebrush area so you know that's that's one little experience in the book a drift 76 days lost at sea Steve Callahan his new boat is sunk in a storm and he spends as the title of the book says 76 days on an inflatable raft of the hole in it and he he is able to survive because of his knowledge of how his gear and equipment worked primarily and also helpful was his knowledge of the ocean and currents and some of the animals and fish and some of that sort of thing was helpful one of the key things was he had a solar still that would right on the water on an inflatable tube and the Sun would would would come into there and heat things up then we would evaporate water up through the middle of this tube and would distill when it hit the plastic kind of a kind of a cone-shaped deal and then this distilled water would run down and be caught in a trough around the edges where it could be could be siphoned off and and drank from there and be due to some circumstances there they had two of those stills and they weren't working hardly at all but because he was aware of how they're supposed to work he was able to adapt some things and be able to make do well enough to get him through the through the experience most of the way he also had you know like as his raft was leaking pretty much the whole time so he's constantly having to pump it up and and he was able due to his knowledge and being kind of handy come up with some ways to try to try to patch the leak as best he could and and get by with it yeah by tying it off and that sort of thing is quite an elaborate difficult situation he had to do especially a shark swimming around trying to trying to bite you while you're in the water leaning in the water trying to do some of this stuff so that's quite a nice book if you get a chance to read it it's very good and a lot of things there there's another thing I cut an illustration I like from Jim Bridger a book written by Jay Cecil elder and he he kind of talks about a lot of the myths of Jim Bridger as well as some of the true things and but one of the things that Bridger was known for as an explorer of the Old West in the United States and a trapper he had an incredible ability to to remember the terrain that he passed through and all the details about it and he is able to guide many people give them directions and things until give them helpful points and tips because of extensive knowledge and able to remember things so his his knowledge came mostly by experience from being there but it was proved very valuable and and so that's kind of the illustrate it doesn't matter where you get your knowledge it's just important to get it and again as much you can and one of the good things about that little story about Jim Bridger is you know a lot of us I'll say us a lot of people get their selves lost because they don't remember very well the terrain they're passing through and when they turn around to come back a lot of times they don't recognize it because they haven't seen it from looking that direction and they find their selves very confused and disoriented so it's good to kind of take an example from Jim Bridger and try to be observant as we pass through various areas and terrain and try to remember some details about it which could help us should we be returning back through there or if we run into somebody that we have to give them some guidance will be able to remember that well enough to do it let's see one of the other books that I enjoyed reading is called rowing to latitude by Jill Fred stone who was a who competed in rowing and that sort of thing in in in school and that sort of thing and I think semi-professionally and she loved loved to row and enter in her boat she didn't really she had kind of a specialized type boat not so much a kayak but but anyway her specialty was she she did a lot of rowing up in the North country's northern North America northern Canada Alaska Greenland took many trips down various rivers did the Northwest Passage all kinds of things like that and her life was saved many times by her study and becoming aware of the climate the conditions you know such as prevailing winds prevailing currents animals polar bears Kodiak bears grizzly bears all those kind of many things that could come up her study and that thing saved her life many times and help to complete the treks in the journey she went on that's an interesting book I'm not really even a rowing guy or somebody that would prefer do that sort of thing that she did but but it's still of quite interesting read one other another one is hey I'm alive by Helen clayben she was a city girl from from New York who decided a young age to venture out into Alaska and see the real world and got out there and settled in a little bit and decided to get a little more adventure and there was a pilot who advertised on the radio for a passenger to ride with him down to his home area of San Francisco and he worked I believe in the oil fields and would be up there several months and then go home for say a month so having an airplane and flying home allowed him more time with his family when he had his time off and he'd usually advertise for a passenger that would help pay for the gas and and give him a little company on this particular time this particular venture of unfortunately the plane crashed and they were exposed to living in conditions 30 40 below zero many times and I believe us 40 I don't know 45 to 47 days or something most of which without any food the only food they had with them when they crashed was enough for lunch that one day they had virtually no supplies no nothing it's amazing how little they had but but they they knew a few things I knew they needed water I cut off the tops of oil cans which back in those days in the 60s were oil cans are my all metal and so they put snow in those over a fire and melted snow into water to drink and pretty much all they did is drink water for a month and a half but they in spite of some of their injuries and that sort of thing they serve I fine and after they were rescued it only took a week or two and they were other than their injuries they were their bodies were recovered and they were they were good to go so even with poor knowledge they had enough basic knowledge to to get him through like the pilot finally I'm kind of looking back I kind of look at the story and if if you want to get the book and read it or even you can youtube search on youtube and they actually was a movie made on about the story as well hey I'm alive but when I look at the story I kind of amazed they lived and then the other side of it I'm thinking how much better things could have been had they had more knowledge even without the gear that they should have had that they didn't have more knowledge would have helped him greatly perhaps they might have even got rescued much sooner in the end the pilot wind up making some snowshoes and hobbled out into a found a logging camp and was able to get a plane sent in there to kind of find Helen and and I kind of get the rescue underway but but anyway so that's a kind of an interesting story there two other two other little short deals the book endurance by Frank Wars Lee tells the story of sir ernest shackleton who explored the antarctic areas in the early days and on one particular expedition which partly was scientific their ship became locked in the ice in Antarctica and the ice finally eventually cracked smashed the boat into pieces and it sunk and they were forced to evacuate whatever they could off the boat and supplies and put them in their lifeboats that they had and then I turned her their boats in two sleds to pull across the ice and the interesting thing was that Shackleton had his men grab some things that probably a lot of us wouldn't

think about and that is he had them bring books like the Bible he had to bring think they had some books on some plays maybe some Shakespeare or something I can't remember exactly the details but but during their trekking across the ice instead of everybody at night going was me they'd write in journals they'd read from the books or they would do plays or musical type things or they basically you know they'd make up little programs among the crew which helped to keep their minds lightened and kind of a kind of gave a more positive spin on things and so kind of I'm looking at this as I kind of liked that because they took some knowledge with them they took some of these things I took guitars and some things like that so they could and some of those kind of things kind of some of those kind of things I think are kind of knowledge related and it helped them keep a more positive attitude and during the I think is approximately 18 months of this this experience not one of the crew members died everyone everyone lived everyone was saved through the experience I think part of that is just kind of due to the knowledge Shackleton had of human nature and not only just the environment the elements and all that by human nature how to keep people's minds focused how to take their minds off the bad and throw some good stuff in there to kinda keep people positively focused the last story I want to tell is some things out of the book and this incidentally is one of my very favorite books on survival and I kind of stumbled into it but it's the book island of the last not of there's some other parts to it something lost on a subarctic island it's so bad it's in the sub-antarctic very cold cruel conditions down there as written by John Druitt she's the one that did the research for it but it illustrates very well a crew lost on this island that would have hurricane-force winds blowing rain and snow at the same time just brutal brutal brutal conditions and just just a horrible I thought and I read it I don't even know how they just even existed through it all but the thing that really saved them was the resourcefulness the knowledge particularly of 11 man renault and but they adapted they they made a they knew they knew they're going to be there at least a month or more so they built a house and kind of a cabin but it's pretty good pretty 12 by 24 pretty decent size of the big stone fireplace they utilize resources off the crashed ship eventually they wound up making or kind of creating a ship out of out of their Shore boat there a man boat I guess you'd call it but they had to make it bigger and make it more make it seaworthy and to do that they had to make their own nails well these guys knew some things they knew they had they knew they had some metal on the crashed ship that they could get but they need to make nails out of it so they had to make a forge a blacksmith deal they had to make their own tools so they made their own bellows and and it's amazing from the lives of some of the previous members of the crew some of the things they'd learn before through experience or through doing things or learning somehow study whatever they were able to marshal all the resources they needed from what they had on hand and wind up creating the means to get off the island and get people back to rescue the rest of the guys through the resourcefulness but that is an incredible story i'd i would recommend that to anybody to read that book i've read it i think two or three times now very very good book it really illustrates several things knowledge resourcefulness skills every very much on leadership I don't want to get into that book I could talk for a now run it but but anyway those are just some examples of of just just the value of knowledge however you obtain the knowledge you know in every case here whatever knowledge the people had was what saved their lives and there's many many other stories we could talk about but I just want to give it just a glimpse and just a little bit of a just a little bit of things to kind of come to mind with me but but anyway that's just just to kind of go back one of my initial statements their knowledge itself is power it is what gives us the creativity it's what it's what gives us options in our lives when they come into situation our knowledge that we have is what gives us that creative path to figure out what can I do how can i make my situation better how can I get rescued if I need to funny to make something or create something how can I do it with what's here you know in the back to that book island of the Lost when they built their chimney in there in their cabin they had stones but there was nothing there wasn't even any clay on the island they needed some kind of mortar so they wound up making their own cement and they're just because of their knowledge they knew that the shells from the like oyster type muscles or whatever laying around the shore they knew they could put those in a hot fire and and burn those down and make lime and then they could you know mix the line with some sand and that sort of thing that could make a mortar kind of a cement mortar and I was just just one other illustration of you got to read that book if you don't read any other book that it's just it's a great story as well but

but anyway knowledge is power it's what gives us the ability to survive it's what gives us the ability to do things to to better our lives no matter what whether it's survival or not really just in our regular lives our knowledge can come to our to our aid so just advise you know whether you're reading watching videos YouTube's or taking classes whether it's just you know partly experience out there trying things whether it's something you know some knowledge abilities you're born with your just your senses or whatever try to always be learning it's like to me it's fun i love it i love learning things there's no matter who wrote the book or whatever i always come away learning something from somebody so just this perry peacock wilderness innovation hope everybody enjoyed this little deal about knowledge and hope everybody I do the best to learn what they can and and put that to use less some other things come up here on skills and gear along the way too but but just do what you can have fun outdoors enjoy your time try to learn while you're out there and and just remember things things are possible when you've got knowledge and take care have a good day and hope this helped you follow us on our facebook page or watch our videos on youtube take these audio programs our blogs newsletters whatever read books all that sort of thing get whatever knowledge you can and take care and uh we'll be able to see you around and able meet up someday so once again perry peacock wilderness animation have a great day