Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

I heard about this place during a random chat with my colleagues.  It is a 11 meters cliff located in South west Alberta where aboriginal people had been hunting buffalo for 5500 years. This is basically a hunting trick: Buffalos were driven to a lane by human-dressed-up coyotes and wolves.  Then at full gallop, the buffalos would fall from the weight of the herd pressing behind them, breaking their legs and rendering them immobile.   

I doubted the story at the beginning: why the behind buffalos did not stop running when they observed the front-line buffalos fell?    Today, I did a little research. I think the reason is the behind buffalos were forced by other buffalos to jump, even they did not want to.

This made me think of the importance of thinking independently.  “Follow your heart but with your brain”. Do not blindly follow others, even they are authorities.  I’ve seen many people trying to follow the “mainstream norm” to make sure they are on the right track. However, each individual is different. What suits others may not work on me.  We have to be level-minded and understand what really suit us in a certain situation.    

Now, another question arises:  Do we really understand ourselves? Do we know what we want?