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I used to read a lot of western books when I was younger. One thing that used to impress me about native American Indians was their equestrian skills.

• I read about how Indians from before they were teenagers could ride horses bareback. They could mount them at top speed and get off the same way.
• They could literally put their ears to the ground and tell how many horses or riders or vehicles are moving, in what direction they are moving, how far out they are and how soon they’d reach them.
• They could look at the bent grass and tell how many horses road by, when they rode by and how many men each horse carried.
• They could stalk wild animals in the forest as well as wild animals can stalk human beings.
• They could look in the direction of the sun’s rays and still see beyond it.
• They are not blinded by the sun’s rays. They could shoot arrows accurately over very long distances. They can survive on the littlest amount of food or water.
• They had excellent hearing abilities. Infact, there was a teaching among them that if you heard the twang of a bowstring releasing an arrow change the direction you were heading towards immediately.
• They could concoct all sorts of potions from vegetation to dress injuries, bleed poisons, feed nutritiously, abate pain and all that.
• They could withstand unbearable pain. As a matter of fact, in some tribes, real men weren’t supposed to cry out when pain was being inflicted on them.

All together, they were a very dangerous bunch of people to go against because of their understanding of nature and the way they blended with it. However, when the white Americans (there were blacks among them, I’ll just use this term to refer to them for now) came, they eventually defeated the native Indians and drove them out of their lands. How did this happen? – Relevance

Even though the Indians were exceptionally good at natural abilities and skills especially measured against what the white Americans knew or could do, they still didn’t succeed in keeping their lands. Why? The white Americans fought the Indians with weapons that were more sophisticated than those powered by natural skills or strength. Relative to the time, the skills of the Indian could not hold as effectively as they should have because newer technology had reduced the potency of such skills.

The potency of your skills is a function of the time or season you display them in.

What skills, knowledge and attributes are you using to keep your place of influence in this time and age? Are they skills that had a premium in the past, or are they skills relevant to compete and excel against opposition or competition around the world? Are they local skills or are they global skills.

The sphere of relevance your skills, knowledge or attributes can command is the maximum area you can dominate or excel in.

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