As a prepper, everyone has areas of improvement they’re looking to master, and this often involves purchasing that piece of equipment to master the said skill. During TEOTWAWKI, WROL, SHTF, Grid-Down, or even a zombie apocalypse, being a “master” at any skill takes a tremendous amount of time and training.
For those who are new or even middle-of-the-road preppers, you should adopt and embrace the timeless adage we all heard as kids, which is “jack-of-all-trade’s-master-at-none”. This mindset is critical to broadening and developing your range of prepping skills more quickly, especially with the current global situation. In other words, learn the skill but do not feel you have to master it.
This is where TPS, or “Tertiary Prepper Skills”, come into play. These are the skills that you can learn in a weekend or two and move on to the next one. TPS are also the most overlooked as many times it is off to the side of your prepper spreadsheet or in the back of your mind of “Hopefully I will get around to those at some point”.
The broader and deeper your skillsets are in prepping, the more valuable of an asset you become. For example, being well versed in five tertiary prepper disciplines could mean the difference between you getting into a MAG or not (or keeping your spot in one for that matter). Maybe you are not in a group at all, and it is just you and your family. You are the one who must be the jack of all trades. The TPS you learn could be the difference between whether you and your family members survive a calamity or not.
