{"id":27508,"date":"2017-11-01T07:15:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T12:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27508"},"modified":"2017-11-01T07:15:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T12:15:39","slug":"if-you-dont-know-the-answers-to-these-questions-you-need-to-work-on-your-prepper-mindset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27508","title":{"rendered":"If You Don\u2019t Know the Answers to These Questions, You Need to Work on Your Prepper Mindset\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/develop-a-prepper-mindset-and-ask-yourself-these-questions_01112017\/\">If You Don\u2019t Know the Answers to These Questions, You Need to Work on Your Prepper Mindset<span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-44660 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/prepper-mindset.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/prepper-mindset.jpg 500w, http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/prepper-mindset-300x200.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/center>This article\u2019s purpose is to provide you with a framework of ideas for self-assessment.\u00a0 The piece is Part I of two parts.\u00a0 It is one of the U.S. Army\u2019s Principles of Leadership to <strong>know yourself and seek self-improvement.\u00a0 <\/strong>This is rooted in a principle that goes back to the time of the Bible, that he who knows himself and controls his passions is stronger than the conqueror of a city.\u00a0 As conquerors of cities run, few were as adept as <strong>Sun Tzu<\/strong>, ancient Chinese warlord, and strategist.\u00a0 Sun Tzu said to <strong>know yourself and to know your enemy,<\/strong>with emphasis on the first part.\u00a0 It is this part that we concentrate our focus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you know yourself?<\/strong>\u00a0 It is a fair question.\u00a0 Survivalist and prepper, yes, but do you <em>really<\/em>know yourself?\u00a0 One of the problems that we face in life is that we find our identity, the \u201cwho we are\u201d within our interests\u2026of what we do.\u00a0 If a guy works with electrical outlets and wiring buildings, then he is an electrician and calls himself as such.\u00a0 Akin to the zombies in George Romero\u2019s movie, \u201cNight of the Living Dead,\u201d we plod through life and live and die within our professions, perhaps changing from one profession to another, but always self-identifying with what we do: <u>a utilitarian identity.<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But who are we?\u00a0 Do we know ourselves?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this is confusing; however, rather than leave you with the question to sort out, let\u2019s place some feedback and framework into it.\u00a0 Let\u2019s answer a question by asking ourselves more questions.\u00a0 YOU SHOULD WRITE THESE DOWN ON PAPER, to review.\u00a0 \u00a0Let\u2019s do it!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If You Don\u2019t Know the Answers to These Questions, You Need to Work on Your Prepper Mindset\u00a0 This article\u2019s purpose is to provide you with a framework of ideas for self-assessment.\u00a0 The piece is Part I of two parts.\u00a0 It is one of the U.S. Army\u2019s Principles of Leadership to know yourself and seek self-improvement.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12881,530,648,650,6787],"class_list":["post-27508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-jeremiah-johnson","tag-mindset","tag-preparations","tag-prepping","tag-ready-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27509,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27508\/revisions\/27509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}