Eustace Conway is a naturalist , author and appear on the History Channel ’s “ Mountain Men . ” He was also the subject of the book “ The Last American Man , ” so his thought on manhood in modern day America may be relevant .
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wild : What are your thoughts on the philosophy of rites of passage ?
Eustace : I was favorable to have some true rites of enactment . you could create some for yourself , and I did a whole lot of that , and did n’t even realize what I was doing but did it anyway . untried multitude do that today , they smoke cigarettes , fuddle alcohol , drive railroad car fast , get tattoo but the true and highly useable rites of passing have to do with leaders and elders , not equal . The senior consciously guiding those unseasoned people , and mostly the ritual of passage is going to be for the greater good of the community , for sustainable living . Those are some of the elements of what a rite of passage is .
I have had a few very strange things in my life that I ’m bless by . A draw of them have to do with my grandfather , his leadership , give the idea that ceremony and a a rite of passage is something that ’s gear up aside , and strange , and ordinarily alarming , a great deal of times there ’s brutality , mark , bleeding , but several time I was , like 3 different meter where I was woken up in the centre of the night , in dead sleep , like 3 in the morning , taken by the great unwashed from my sleeping quarters and convey up on the mountain by a horse flight in the middle of the night , and proceed through elaborate and long endure ceremony , admit the letting of blood and some very profound storytelling .
Like the story of a turtle . He would work a turtle over in front of me , and told me “ You see this turtle , he ’s struggle . ” He ’d bend and habituate his neck to endeavor to move around over , it ’s very hard for a polo-neck on it ’s back to turn itself over . “ This turtleneck will continue to seek , it will either croak trying or it ’ll turn over itself over . ” It ’s never going to give up . So I sat there , in the torch and firelight , muted , and I watched , and the turtle tried and tried , and eventually that polo-neck become back over and crawled off into the darkness .
Wilderness : How do you plow being wrong , as a leader ?
Eustace : I make a real peak even on diminished stuff , specially about low stuff and nonsense . One intellect , they do n’t love it usually but 95 % of the time I will forthwith call it . I ’ll say “ Hey Guys , I made a mistake here . This is what I did and this is what I should have done . ” This helps construct me more human , help oneself them see they ’re not the only ones make mistakes . They are making mistakes over and over and over . I say them from the get - go and double it over and over that mistake are their blessings . mistake are how you determine . If you are n’t make mistakes , something is wrong . If you ’re make mistakes left and right , the more we do , like natural action , oeuvre , activeness , motion , that creates opportunity to produce misapprehension . The more involved you are in doing something , the more misunderstanding you ’re gon na make , and the more mistakes you ’re go to make , the more you ’re going to learn . But only if you go through the process of learning . You have to see from your mistake , do n’t just can it and say “ Nothing happened , oh it ’s not a problem . ” See that it ’s a trouble and use it to your advantage . I like for them to see that I make misapprehension too . That I ’m working with the formula I ’m hand them . Be accountable , be responsible and look at it as a good thing . Mostly the mistakes I make are small mistake , so I rise on them and utilize them to the benefit of the whole team .
Wilderness : How would you define a someone of fibre in your own discussion ?
Eustace : rent me back up a little bit and come around to that and give you a little historical background signal . I do n’t make love if you sleep with much about my family but my female parent ’s side of the family , my grandfather ’s appoint Chief Johnson , who ’s a heck of a leader , which is one reason he ’s called Chief . He was extraordinary in what he accomplished in his lifespan , one of the most amazing leaders of our time . A pot of his writings and bequest , are undimmed and shining now many years now after he ’s all in . He place up a program at a boys ’ camp called Camp Sequoyah . The entire aim , in fact the slogan was : a camp with a role . The purpose was to develop reference growth . So that was awe-inspiring and exceedingly successful program of developing character , and again just like I do from the model I catch , he get going about it very consciously , meticulously , compose out ‘ This is how you acquire eccentric , this is what reference is , this is what it ’s all about . ’ So , that gives you a trivial background .
Character has a lot to do with the edifice blocks of foundational ethics that are clear and crisp , well defined , you know ‘ em . Instead of sloughy , ambiguity they have intemperate , discriminating edge and are very intermeshed with those things and originate each one of them instead of ‘ Yeah there ’s this ethical thing , I consider it ’s some values . ’ Instead of that , it ’s if you do wrong by somebody , you should fix it , you should apologise . There ’s this format . It ’s a system and you go through that and that form of inscription to the correct , ethical , moral , value is sort of what shapes character . Kind of like the substructure , the petri dish that the ontogenesis on top comes out of . What people see is what ’s on top , the effectiveness , the foundation of it all is what ’s in the deepness of your fibre . The introductory building of who you are .
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