Horses in general tend to hand out humble pie like it’s
their job. And when you work with horses all day, especially as a working
student you realize the humbleness is going to come from every which way and
every time of the day. Which is probably
the best thing that will ever happen to you.
As working students, we are at the barn to learn, and
through my many weeks of working student life I have grown to not only accept
this, but be encouraged by it. I love learning, I really do. I am constantly
trying to find out more, and be more aware of the community I am apart of. The
first step of learning is to admit that you do not know everything. Here’s your first slice of pie. The
second step is to accept what your trainer/ barn manager/ coworker is the
truth. MMM, slice two. The final step
to realize that most of the time cementing what you have just learned is going
to take a lot of repetition, practice, and getting corrected. Slice three really hits the spot, doesn’t
it?
But the best part of all this pie is that it will never go
to your head. After a few pies you begin to welcome any advice with open arms,
and that combined with a desire to make those changes will make you into an
unstoppable learning machine; or at least a really awesome student. Either way
you are better off.
Teach me your napping wisdom!
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