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Unorthodox Skills For A Post-Apocalyptic Scenario

October 27, 2018October 27, 2018 James Burnette

Today I have a guest post on Unorthodox Skills For A Post-Apocalyptic Scenario. Should be some you’ve thought about and some you have not. Enjoy!

Unorthodox Skills For A Post-Apocalyptic Scenario

When we consider the potential of a post-apocalyptic scenario, or a general collapse of established society, there are some types of skills that come to mind as general necessities. If you’re reading here, you’ve likely considered things like knowing how to forage safely, knowing how to start a fire, being able to find or create shelter, basic knife skills, stretching a store of canned food, etc. If you’re to be fully prepped for this kind of situation though, there’s really no cap to the skills that might come in handy. So I did some thinking, and a little bit of research, to come up with some more unorthodox skills to consider adding to your arsenal.

Setting Skills Goals For The Year And How To Learn Fast | episode 135

February 1, 2017June 23, 2022 James Burnette

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Setting Skills Goals For The Year And How To Learn Fast | episode 135

This week Jeff from the lost skills podcast joins me to talk about skills. More specifically how to learn them fast.

As per expected, we chase many rabbits and banter.

We cover many techniques to quickly learn new skills.

To begin with, we talk about setting skill-based goals for the year. And to make them smart goals.

To be a smart goal it has to be timely, measurable and achievable.

Do not set a goal to become a master woodworker this week. You will fail. Miserable.

I like to set goals in quarterly intervals. So every three months. And to make them small and attainable.

In my case since I do want to get into woodworking, I want to learn the dovetail joint this quarter.

To measure my success I have to have a decent dovetail joint at the end of the quarter.

We cover many ways to learn new skills quickly in this podcast.

Shout Out to Kate for doing the opening this week.

Episode 31 Jeff From The Lost Skills Podcast

October 8, 2014October 8, 2014 James Burnette 2 Comments

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This week we welcome on to the Podcast Jeff Radtke from the lost skills podcast. The Lost skills podcast to helping to bring back the skills being lost today. Jeff is an avid outdoors man. He is active in the prepper community. Jeff lives the DIY life. The attitude of not being afraid of to try stuff is almost lost. Fear of breaking things rules the mainstream mindset. Jeff wants to bring back the spirit of fixing things yourself. Doing your own car maintenance. Hunting and growing food. If you want to do stuff yourself then this show if for you.

13 in Thirteen: No pain no Gain!

December 13, 2012December 13, 2012 James Burnette 13 Comments

I know a lot of you are listeners to The Survival Podcast. As such I’m sure you may have heard about the new project Jack’s launching, his 13 in Thirteen skills challenge at 13Skills.com. For those of you who have not heard about this the basic premise is for people to learn/ master at least 13 new skills in the year 13. Of course it does not need to end with 2014 and really learning 13 new skills a year is a good number. Although I’ve been slow to sign up I knew when I first heard about this project I would be getting involved. To be honest I planed a personal version of something like this anyway this was just more concrete and has a sexy site to track your progress and brag with friends about. Let me tell you why I think this is a great idea, what I plan on learning this year and why you need to get your ass involved and learn a new skill or 13.

Stuff vs. Skills

June 20, 2012June 25, 2012 James Burnette

Today I have a great guest post from DB from FloridaHillbilly.com Thanks DB. Enjoy this article while I enjoy my hammock on vacation.

Last week, here at SurvivalPunk.com, the importance of training was the topic. Expanding on that same thought process, I want to expand on “stuff” vs. “skills”.