The 12 Rules of Survival – By Laurence Gonzales
Found via Lew Rockwell.
As a journalist, I’ve been writing about accidents for more than thirty years. In the last 15 or so years, I’ve concentrated on accidents in outdoor recreation, in an effort to understand who lives, who dies, and why. To my surprise, I found an eerie uniformity in the way people survive seemingly impossible circumstances. Decades and sometimes centuries apart, separated by culture, geography, race, language, and tradition, the most successful survivors — those who practice what I call “deep survival” — go through the same patterns of thought and behavior, the same transformation and spiritual discovery, in the course of keeping themselves alive. Not only that but it doesn’t seem to matter whether they are surviving being lost in the wilderness or battling cancer, whether they’re struggling through divorce or facing a business catastrophe — the strategies remain the same.
Survival should be thought of as a journey, a vision quest of the sort that native Americans have had as a rite of passage for thousands of years. Once you’re past the precipitating event — you’re cast away at sea or told you have cancer — you have been enrolled in one of the oldest schools in history. Here are a few things I’ve learned that can help you pass the final exam.
………………..
Related books:
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things
- Links
A Dozen Things Learned from Sam Zell about Investing and Business (LINK) [I've also recently begun to read a review copy of Tren Griffin's book on Charlie Munger, which will be released next month. It is fantastic. As always, you can pre-order...
- Gene Breakthroughs Spark A Revolution In Cancer Treatment
Kellie Carey's doctor finally stopped dodging questions about how long she had to live six weeks after he diagnosed her lung cancer. "Maybe three months," he told her in his office one sunny May morning in 2010, she recalls. Yet she is still alive,...
- Nassim Taleb Quote
“Aside from the non-narrative view of things, another lesson. People with too much smoke and complicated tricks and methods in their brains start missing elementary, very elementary things. Persons in the real world can’t afford to miss these things;...
- Richard Branson: Five Secrets To Business Success
Found via Market Folly.I am often asked if I have found a secret – or at least a consistent answer – to successfully building businesses over my career.So I’ve spent some time thinking about what characterizes so many of Virgin’s successful ventures...
- Why We Are, As We Are
As the 150th anniversary of the publication of “On The Origin of Species” approaches, the moment has come to ask how Darwin’s insights can be used profitably by policymakers … For a Darwinian, life is about two things: survival and reproduction....