About this episode

Clint Campbell discusses how to improve hunting skills during the off-season by focusing on deliberate practice rather than naive practice.

I'll pick this up right where I left off in episode four. I told you to sit down and run four honest questions on your worst hunt of last season. No sugarcoating, no "I need to be more patient." Find the actual decision that broke things. If you did the homework, you've got something with edges now, a real turning point you can point to. So now what? It's July. There's nothing to hunt. You've got a diagnosis and no patient to test it on. This is where I borrowed an idea straight from jiu jitsu, a sport I've spent a fair amount of time getting choked out in over the last few years. There's a difference between rolling and drilling. Rolling is live sparring, full resistance, real stakes. Drilling is the boring part. The same move, fifty times, nobody fighting back, until your body just does it without asking your brain for permission. Hunters only roll. We show up in October with nothing behind us except the last October. No off-season reps. Just waiting around and hoping we remember how to be good at this. I got into Angela Duckworth's research on this for the episode. She splits practice into naive (logging hours, shooting shots you can already make) and deliberate (finding the…

People in this episode

Host: Clint Campbell

Topics covered

• hunting strategy
• off-season practice
• self-improvement
• decision making
• jiu jitsu

Keywords

• hunting
• off-season
• practice
• Angela Duckworth
• decision making
• jiu jitsu
• self-improvement

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