🎠 Learning by asking
A long long time ago a group of "grumpy old horse men" in my native home country made quite the nasty comments about [mostly] women sitting behind their computers and hung out on certain internet forums.
Forums where they, side by side with many other topics, had the nerve to discuss both horses as well as the equestrian industry.
For this group of men it was like their biggest night mare had come true. Truth of the matter is they were horrified over this kind of [to them] apauling female behaviour.
From time to time those grumpy men may actually have been spot on. But fast forward to the year of 2025 and some of these women have now reached a level of success most people could only dream about.
These ladies are now selling horses to name worthy top riders all over the world.
They breed top level show jumpers, eventing and dressage horses.
They know what they are doing, and the reason they know what they are doing is they never assumed they knew it all. Instead they kept asking questions, they kept reading other people's thoughts and ideas. They brainstormed, they shared their mistakes, and they kept the dream going no matter what.
They followed their gut, they took advise, they read, they listened, they observed and they tried. In the end of it all, all that curiosity, and new found knowledge is exactly what made their dreams come true and took their equestrian business dreams to the next level.
Since then the times have changed, the internet climate have changed. What didn't change that much is this group of grumpy old horse men.
Even though some of them may have disappeared along the way, because they got to old or some horror disease came along the once that are lucky enough to sill be around still bitch about the internet, and how women get together to discuss horse business online.
One must just hope all the great knowledge that came along with these guys, and their ever so often cavalry backgrounds, won't die with them but find its ways to carry on.
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