Gathering.

So a good friend of mine is a hippie.  He attends quite often these small gatherings with other like minded folks.  These gatherings are generally in the middle of a national forest, deep into nature.  This piques my interest in that, I am a huge fan of nature and bush-craft.  I mean to say, i really love immersing myself in nature, and being alone in the woods.  I enjoy honing primitive skills, creating fire, building shelter, ect.  I would like to bring 5-10 people on this gathering quickly approaching, and teach them things that are needed in the woods.  I think it would be a wonderful asset to bestow onto my fellow companions and give them the confidence to do things on their own.

I am at heart a teacher, i think all people are.  We as humans are all so excited to share the latest news/info/gadgets/widgets with one another, and I believe this all stems from our want and need to teach.  Humans evolved away from teaching skills to sharing ideas, and thought-chains with people, building deep meaningful relationships.  I would like to put some of that primitive learning back on the table.  I think more than ever it will become important to know your roots, and know you can make due in the wild.  I'm not talking about teaching people to eat grubs and such, but if you're out hiking and you get lost, you'll at least be able to build a signal fire, or make a shelter.  The small skills make a huge difference between a comfortable yet scary night out in the woods, vs. a terrifying cold night in which you don't sleep and wake up terrified when you do manage to fall asleep. 

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The next step.

I am getting to the point where I am starting to find flaws in systems. I have been able to in the past work around them, and essentially void them, or in other words ignore the elephant in the room.  Now it's the itch on the bottom of your foot under your sock in your shoe laced down tight that you can't get too.  It's all there, I see the problem, and now i have to figure out how to untie the shoe, remove it from my foot and peel the sock off.  Imagine walking down a sidewalk and tripping on a uneven surface.  The current way we fix this is by either painting it yellow and putting it on exhibit, or destroy it and start from scratch, and then the problem goes away.  This is the approach I want to start to take with my life, and the systems within.  Now when I see a problem, I am promising myself to write everything down about why this doesn't work.  After I dissect what is wrong, and how to simply fix it, and while fixing, how to innovate, we as humans generally fix things fast and hard, without much consideration as too the future of this product/place/thing/widget.

This is phase one of my plan for world domination, or at least a more efficient life.