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Mental Toughness Is the Best Survival Tool

Mike H. said:
Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled “Mental Toughness Is the Best Survival Tool” and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/mental-toughness-is-the-best-survival-tool-you-have/.

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Great article Mike! This mirrors much of what I was taught during a survival course in northern Alberta when I was in the military. Survival is very psychological. First order of business once you've found a safe, dry place...build a fire (if possible). Keep busy to keep your mind busy. Fire, shelter, water, food, signal fires. One of the best courses I was sent on.
 
this got me thinking about what my weaknesses really are and can i be objective in identifying them. this may be a good exercise.
in the handful of times when i had to act under stress i was calm, or at least i felt i was and the outcomes were good. then again nobody was shooting at me nor was a mountain lion trying to eat me.
 
Logical thinking (not panicking) is critical. I believe it was Churchill that said “when faced with a critical decision, the best thing to do is the right thing, the second best is to do is the wrong thing. The worst thing to do is Nothing”
 
Thanks for the link, Mike.

Probably a good thing, but most of us don’t get to (or have to!) practice the things that build mental toughness. Honestly, I am thankful that is the case. My Dad used to say most of us are “spoiled,” and I think he was right on.

One of the things I try to keep in mind and live by, is that everything is relative and everything depends on your perspective.
 
The two most important in my mind are a well trained calm mind and then like an old Finnish, I believe it is, saying with a knife you may live, without a knife you will surely die.
 
somorris said:
Thanks for the link, Mike.

Probably a good thing, but most of us don’t get to (or have to!) practice the things that build mental toughness. Honestly, I am thankful that is the case. My Dad used to say most of us are “spoiled,” and I think he was right on.

One of the things I try to keep in mind and live by, is that everything is relative and everything depends on your perspective.
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Most? I’d say “all of us”. If you were born in the USA you won the lottery of life, This still is the only nation in the world where the poor drive their own cars. I’ve got a few friends who are naturalized US citizens who came from Nigeria. One told about his village back there where people had to walk three miles to a stream for water (and then the property owner began charging them to cross his land to get to the stream! He save enough money that he was able to pay to have a well drilled back in his home village. Another one, nice young man with wife an 3 kids came to me a couple years ago when the rioting, burning and looting and all the “woke” bs was going on. He said “can I ask you a question?” Sure, what? “What the hell is WRONG with these people? Don’t they have any idea of how blessed they are to just BE here?”
 
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