This is most crucial to surviving any calamity, injury or accident. Therefore, being an important part of emergency preparedness, developing the survivor’s mentality can very much be the tool that should see you through safe waters.
How to adopt the survivor’s mentality?
This is how one must develop the survivor’s mentality:
- Do not take calamities, accidents or any event too personally and respond to it before its too late
- NEVER QUIT and fight to survive
- Keep a balanced personality which means not panicking too much and keeping alert and FOCUSED
- Get over the mistakes you’re making and do not despair if you falter, take wrong directions, damage equipments or lose them
- During most disasters the degree of uncertainty can be paralyzing. But one cannot despair because of the unknown or the uncertain. So don’t do not dwell on what can’t be answered but what can be done and EMBRACE UNCERTAINTIES as they come and in whatever degree they come.
- If in a group always WORK TOGETHER because that helps to reduce fear and uncertainty
Research has actually proven that surviving disasters is a game of the mind, an attitude! It is not how big or strong you are, how fit or how many emergency supplies you have that can determine your survival but the willingness to survive the toughest of situations that can pull you out of disasters.