You are listening to the Gritty Podcast where we talk about all things gritty. Life is not

easy. It never was and it never will be. A good life takes grit. Prioritize who you are

and who you want to be because life isn't fair and a little grit can make all the difference.

Welcome to the Gritty Podcast. I am your host Brian Call and I am joined by my brother,

the Gritty Bromine. Brent, how are you? I am well, thank you.

All right. Well, today's podcast, have you ever been on a hunt where you have been going on a

stalk after a big buck, let's say, you're moving in, you know, the stock is going well and then

something unexpected happens and it blows up your stock. Okay. And maybe it was something

unexpected that you could have detected. Maybe if you had gone a little slower, if you had scanned

the area a little more, whatever. If you had been a little more careful about an obstacle,

you were crossing over whatever it is. Okay. We've all been there where we've been on a stock

and something crappy has happened and a great opportunity was lost. Well, today I've been thinking

about that a lot and today I want to cover kind of some interesting ideas about how we as human beings

like see the world, how our perceptions are formed and psychologically, you know, what helps you on a

stock? Like what is the right psychological mindset as a hunter that will help you be successful when

you go out on a stock? The first thing I want to address is when you go out on a stock, you see

an animal, you see your buck, let's say, and it's a giant buck. It's a beautiful buck and he is

bedded beneath some rocks on his cliff, right? And the wind is, let's say it's in his face, right?

And he's got the cliff at his back so he feels real safe. Okay. And you're looking at it and you're

like big buck, big buck, big buck, beautiful buck. So you have this emotion that floods you.

Positive emotion, right Brent? Like a very positive emotion is flooding your system because,

well, there's a valued target and he's a large buck. Then you're looking for an open pathway

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