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There are things that change all through your life the way you deal with people, the way you approach problems.

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Buck Brannaman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 29
Horse Trainer
Non-Fiction Writer
Sheboygan
Wisconsin
Things
Life
Approach
People
Deal
Problems
Deals
Change
Problem
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With a horse, if you make it easy for him to do the right thing, that's what he will logically do, but it's not necessarily true with the human. You will see humans that will beat their heads against the wall rather than open the door and walk through it.
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Horses aren't lazy and they're not greedy and they're not jealous and they're not spiteful, they're not hateful. They're not that way. But the human can sometimes only describe a horse in the way that they view other human beings.
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One of the biggest challenges of a horsemen is to be able tot control your emotions.
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Horses and life, it's all the same to me.
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Some guys make their careers off one horse kind of a trick horse, a wonder horse. I'm not knocking that, but for me I'm trying to get better and study. That means taking out new horses. It's a life study. When I've finished a horse, I turn him out and basically stop riding him, except taking him to the occasional branding so I can enjoy him.
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Solutions to problems often come from knowing when to ask for help.
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A horse can have a job and not be a slave. He can look forward to it and enjoy it. That's the same for me.
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I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.
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On a horse there is a perfect position of balance where he doesn't feel like he's pushing you along with him or dragging you along with him. It's like two converging currents in a river, where those currents converge, there is a point where there is no movement, no energy and that's what you're thinking when you're on the back of a horse.
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It’s not about how much pressure you put on, it’s how good you are at taking it off.
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You can't make something happen with a horse, but you can fix things up and let it happen.
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I don't believe in waiting for a horse to do the wrong thing and then punishing him after the fact. You can't just say no to a horse. You have to redirect a negative behavior with a positive one, something that works for both of you. It's as though you're saying - instead of doing that, we can do this together.
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The horse responds to comfort, they respond to peace better than about anything else you could do. All he wants you to do is just leave him alone. So if the horse responds to you and you give him a little peace and comfort that means more to him than anything.
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Nobody has to lose for me to succeed and that is a unique job. Everybody wins, horse wins, people win, I win.
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If I heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times from Ray Hunt. He said 'make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy'. Then he said 'but don’t make the wrong thing impossible'. Well.....you learn from making mistakes. It’s that simple.
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They say nerves heal real slowly. Lots of things about us heal real slowly.
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When you find that the horse is compelled and interested in you, something in you changes. That can be healing or move you deeply.
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Controlling your emotions is the biggest challenge for a horseman.
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My work is my play. I found a way to make my passion to be the same as how I make a living.
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Every time you interact with a horse, you are teaching the horse.
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