A certain person said the following. There are two kinds of dispositions, inward and outward, and a person who lacks one or the other is worthless. It is, for example, like the blade of the sword, which one should sharpen well and then put in its scabbard, periodically taking it out and knitting one’s eyebrows as in an attack, wiping off the blade, and then placing it in its scabbard again. If a person has his sword out all the time, he is habitually swinging a naked blade; people will not approach him and he will have no allies. If a sword is always sheathed, it will become rusty, the blade will dull, and people will think as much of its owner. HAGAKURE – THE BOOK OF SAMURAI – YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO, 1659-1720
Horse whisper is a low-level “breaking pattern mumbling” – loud commands are not necessary, crude and counterproductive.
Hearing
- Horses are always listening – most mobile of any domestic animal
- Similar to mammals – Better than humans
- Frequency – number of vibrations per second
- Pitch – 1 Hz = 1vib/1sec
- Volume – hear and feel lower tones than humans
- Horses hear from greater distances
- Measured in decibels (dB) – log unit: energy of sound
- Sound – infra below human audible hearing – less than 20Hz
- Ultra – more than 20KHz
- Links – a subtle precursor for anticipation
- Sound activity / Other horses / Door sounds
Injuring all of a man’s ten fingers is not as effective as chopping off one. Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976)
Brinkmanship is … the deliberate creation of a recognizable risk, a risk that one does not completely control. It is the tactic of deliberately letting the situation get somewhat out of hand, just because its being out of hand may be intolerable to the other party and force its accommodation. It means harassing and intimidating an adversary by exposing him to a shared risk or deterring him by showing that if he makes a contrary move he may disturb us so that we slip over the brink whether we want to or not, carrying him with us. THINKING STRATEGICALLY, AVINASH K. DIXIT AND BARRY J.NALEBUFF 1991
Taste & Smell
- More developed than humans – tool for recognition
- Horses Like salt and can learn quickly to like sweet
- Flehmen Response – Curl the upper lip back
- Drive scent into a nostril
- Odour particles are processed by the vomeronasal organ ( In nasal passages
- Pheromones – All creatures respond and have default behaviour
- Scent chemical substance
- Horses are extremely sensitive to the smell of water
- It’s normal and healthy for a foal to eat its mother’s manure – populate his intestines with the bacteria necessary
We observe no change in them ( as at present a person absorbed in something does not notice anyone passing by). To plants, all things are, as a rule, at rest, eternal, every object like itself. From the period of lower organisms handed down to man the belief that there are things (Gleiche Dinge): Only the trained experience attained through the most advanced science contradicts this postulate. The primordial belief of all organisms is, perhaps, that all the rest of the world is one thing and motionless – furthest away from this first step towards the logical is the notion of causation: even today we think that all our feelings and doings are, at bottom acts of free will; when the sentient individual contemplates himself he deems every feeling, every change, a something isolated, disconnect, that is to say, unqualified by anything; it comes suddenly to the surface, independent of anything that we before or came after. We are hungry, but originally we do not know that the organism must be nourished.HUMAN ALL TOO HUMAN , 1878