We know what we know because....

Check out this speaker list - Chris Howie, Peter Law, Danny Thomas, Nigel Kerin, Prof Richard Eckard, Jess Cavanagh, Jeremy Hutchings, Ellen Garland, Vic Dohle, and Jeff McDonald. All these speakers will deliver so many takeaways for Farmers. The event is "The Business of Farming". Friday, March 3rd, 2023 in Bendigo, Victoria. For an agenda and to buy tickets, click here. See the flyer below.

By Dwain Duxson

We know what we know because.... -- If we didn't have opinions on things, then we wouldn't get very far in life. Making our minds up on something and doing it is the way we get things done. But....

We know what we currently know from our upbringing, our experiences, how we are programmed, our fears, our education, and we even have influences from the community we live in. But some of these things are holding us back, keeping us average, and I bet if I asked each and every one of you if you wanted to be average, 90 percent would say, I want to be better than that. I spoke to a lady yesterday who reckons we are better off questioning everything. You know, like the 4-year-old that always asks "why".

She said we have to stop believing everything we hear from others as being gospel, and we have to take everything we read, hear and watch in the media with a grain of salt. This and social media are influencing us in a negative way, she said. 

Communities are great, especially rural communities, wonderful places to live. But these same places can sometimes be the biggest thing holding us back. I'm not saying move to a city, it's more about getting out of the community we are comfortable in. Sometimes you have to think, "is this the right place for me right now"?

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