Another thread got me thinking. In my opinion, your mindset is the most important asset. I noticed this with cancer treatment.
Obviously, it's not the people who give up or have a pessimistic outlook who statistically do the best. However, it may surprise folks to know, those who get "f*ck cancer" socks and call themselves warriors are also statistically less likely to make it.
Who makes it most often? It's the people who accept that death is a part of life and work through that while also holding onto their humanity. It's the people who lean on support (that one was particularly hard for me) and who learned a nee way of life while also finding joy amidst the unpleasantness of it all.
This is verifiable through countless studies. There is a "cancer" mindset and there is a "survivor" mindset, though the "survivor" mindset is often misrepresented as one who is a bad*ss who can do it all.
Applying that to disaster preparation or a SHTF scenario, I suspect that those who would survive the best are also ones who are able to accept the possibility of death, work with others, and just make the best out of a bad situation while not becoming frantic to live.
Thoughts?
Obviously, it's not the people who give up or have a pessimistic outlook who statistically do the best. However, it may surprise folks to know, those who get "f*ck cancer" socks and call themselves warriors are also statistically less likely to make it.
Who makes it most often? It's the people who accept that death is a part of life and work through that while also holding onto their humanity. It's the people who lean on support (that one was particularly hard for me) and who learned a nee way of life while also finding joy amidst the unpleasantness of it all.
This is verifiable through countless studies. There is a "cancer" mindset and there is a "survivor" mindset, though the "survivor" mindset is often misrepresented as one who is a bad*ss who can do it all.
Applying that to disaster preparation or a SHTF scenario, I suspect that those who would survive the best are also ones who are able to accept the possibility of death, work with others, and just make the best out of a bad situation while not becoming frantic to live.
Thoughts?