BUSINESS

TWELVE YEARS LATER
A CONVERSATION AND INTERVIEW
WITH MIKE BOYCE AND PRODUCTION
MANAGER STUART FARNSWORTH PART 2
by Larry Blomquist

YOU ONCE SAID THAT COMPETING HAS PLAYED A BIG roll in improving the quality of taxidermy in our industry. I agree, but what about taxidermists who compete more for ribbons and less for the learning process? Could you comment on this?

Mike. To me, if you really evaluate it, a ribbon is meaningless--in a way. I wish I had a dollar for every guy who has said, "I have a box of ribbons but I cannot make a living." The ribbon, in and of itself, really doesn't mean anything. What really is meaningful is the knowledge that is acquired in the achievement. I don't think you ever grow, unless you try to achieve more than what you are. Which means stepping back and letting a judge tear it apart. That may be painful, but that is really where the knowledge and growth comes from. In the end ...
 

...Continued in the Fall 2003 Issue of Breakthrough.

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