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#571: Boyd Varty — The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

The Tim Ferriss Show

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Tracking - The Beginning of Science

Tracking is an art form that has been alive. It lives inside of people because it has been passed on through generations. A tracker will teach another tracker the way. When you are tracking, you are connected to that entire lineage. Thousands of years ago, someone did this very same practice. Ye and almon was just brilliant in the bush. But it would have been absolutely impossible without the skills and the brilliance of the shangan trackers. To be able to go out a vast wilderness and attune yourself to the faint tracks of where this animal had walked or listened for alarm calls. All of that made it possible, and it wouldn't have been possible without great trackers.

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