Ricky Quinn on Learning New Things

Once you get to be a cowboy there should be a lot of pride there. You should believe in yourself.  You got to have confidence to give confidence to the horse to be able to move a cow that doesn't want to be moved.  You got to think something of yourself. But sometimes in that world too it can be really hard to change. There's no difference in anywhere. And that change is really, really hard. But some people might try it and say, oh yeah, I'm open to learning when the new wears off it comes down to they weren't as interested as you thought. And I think really the people that I work with are very, very, very open.  And they're learning so much and they're just really, really excelling because they're very open. And really there's kind of a deal where I work that if you're not open to this we're not interested in your work in here.

And the other thing that I've got in my favor is the crew that I work with, they really do believe in it. And so when somebody new comes in that's kind of off the mark a little bit and they can kind of see through these people and those people really aren't into it and they're there
for other reasons. It's really not even me that discourages that person. It's the rest of the crew. Because the rest of the crew's work so hard to get the death lost down and to get these cattle handling a certain way or to get these horses away, right? The people that are part of what we call the steerhead part of the place get a lot of these horses going and then they've got to go to the feed yard.  You know, we want that transition going into the feed yard. We want everybody working in the feed yard the same way that we're working at the arena and out on the ranches. And so that it's a seamless transition for the horses.