“Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.”
In the 1980s a new board game, Trivial Pursuit, was released. I became very fond of that game and in later years I acquired other versions. The game broke down trivia into six categories, Geography, History, Literature, Entertainment, Sports, and Science & Nature. Within my family I was the reigning queen of trivia. Entertainment and Sports were my weakest categories, but History and Literature were my strongest.
So, what on earth does acquiring knowledge of trivia, which is defined as bits of information of little importance, have to do with emergency preparedness? Well, most people consider acquiring emergency preparedness knowledge and skills they might never need to use, as a “trivial pursuit” – literally. They assume catastrophes or big emergencies won’t happen or will happen other places – the “not in my backyard” mentality.
In this blog post I’m going to share two prepper YouTube videos, which provide ideas on how to approach emergency preparedness and make it part of your lifestyle. The first video by Prepper Potpourri offers a perspective on why learning to be a jack-of-all-trades, acquiring many diversified skill sets, rather than becoming a specialist in one area, will boost your emergency preparedness success. At the top of this blog post is Prepper Potpourri’s video, The Key To Boosting Your Emergency Preparedness Success. She mentions a Prepper Matrix chart, with different categories pertaining to emergency preparedness, which can be used as a guide to help you explore and learn about various topics in each category.
That Prepper Matrix chart reminded of the Trivial Pursuit gameboard, where you start in the center of the board with a round game piece that will hold six pie pieces representing each category. As you roll the dice, you choose one of six paths to move down. At the end of each path is a pie square for one of the six categories, which earns you a piece of the pie in one of the categories, if you answer the question from a deck of trivia cards correctly. Along the way to get to the pie squares at the end of each path, you have to keep answering trivia questions. With each correct answer, you get another roll of the dice.
In emergencies, you will likely be faced with all sorts of challenges that might require you to travel down different survival skill paths to deal with them. The more knowledge and skills you have in these various survival skill categories, the better off you and your loved ones will be.
The second video I want to share is How To Have Hope In A War Torn World, by Alaska Granny, which offers some common sense advice on daily life skills. She always breaks down emergency preparedness into easy to understand bits of knowledge:
Both of these You Tube channels have years worth of videos on a wide variety of preparedness topics and how-to videos, which have helped me on my preparedness journey. I also like that they’re not constantly trying to sell all sorts of products, even though I’d understand if they decided to make more money with merchandising, like many other YouTubers do.
Even in the worst of times, people have to take life one day at a time and you can still find joy in small things. So often people surprise me with unusual skills or talents they developed in their life – a summer job they had or volunteering or from an elderly relative, even from watching how-to videos online. I learned how to pressure can in the past few years by watching YouTube videos and I’m in my 60s, so you’re never to old to learn new things. Prepper Potpourri has a lot of excellent canning videos. Alaska Granny has numerous videos on fire-starting and managing outdoors and although she’s in Alaska and I’m in Georgia, many of these skills can be used anywhere in the world. Be open to new ideas and learning new things, but most of all be open to new people.
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