The Dunning Kruger Effect describes a human tendency where people of little expertise overestimate their knowledge and ability. This overestimation occurs because these people don’t have actually enough expertise and experience to know they actually don’t have enough expertise!

It also describes how their confidence plummets as knowledge and experience is gained. Shakespeare summed it up well - “A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool”!

But I Just Want to Ride..

These 6 words will bring you down with a horse.

Why? Because riding is a partnership between you and a horse that you are responsible for cultivating with great care.

And…that is YOU. Not your trainer or the person you bought him from…

Why? Because there is nothing natural for a horse about interacting with humans and letting them sit on their backs…NOTHING. It is as natural for a horse as picking up snakes and spiders is for us! We need a lot of understanding, technique and experience with snakes and spiders to get confident with that, with most of us having zero desire to even do such a thing!

Horses are incredibly gentle and highly trainable creatures that most of the time learn despite how thoughtless of their experience we can be.

However, there is a limit to how much they can take…

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One of the most important lessons in life and with horses is to not take responsibility for another’s emotions or feelings. Take responsibility and be accountable for your own but thinking you are responsible for others sets you up to be manipulative or manipulated. Either way, you can end up with dysfunctional relationships, conflict because it means you have poor personal boundaries. You need to live your life with integrity and allow others to process their own emotions without feeling responsible and trying to fix them.