Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Boyd Varty – The Art of Tracking - [Invest Like the Best, EP.32]

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Apr 11, 2017
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ANECDOTE

Earning A Leopard's Trust

  • After restoring overgrazed land, Boyd's family spent 12 years tracking a female leopard until she trusted vehicles and allowed close observation. That trust drew tourists, seeded an economy of wildlife, and birthed the leopards-of-Londolozi story.
INSIGHT

Restoration Requires Inner Work

  • Restoration of land led Boyd to a deeper insight: healing human consciousness must accompany ecological restoration. He links restoring wild places with restoring human presence and reducing goal-driven compensation patterns.
INSIGHT

Ubuntu Extends To Nature

  • Ubuntu means 'I am because of you' and extends beyond people to our relationship with the more-than-human world. Boyd argues reconnecting with others and nature counters isolation from hyper-individualistic culture.
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