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   From: beaver_militia@yahoo.com   
      
   "John Gilmer"  wrote in message   
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   >> As with most things    
      
          After reading the opinions and exchanges, I think I should mention a   
   book called "Deep Survival".   
         (No I'm not selling it, nor do I make any money from it's sale. It's   
   just a favorite.)   
      
         A good book to understand how the mind and body work in survival   
   situations. Why an Airborn Ranger   
         drowns in a river, even after being offered help. Or why a child with   
   no experience or training survives   
         days lost in the mountains. I realized after reading the book that   
   sometimes having experience and training   
         can actually make you more vulnerable. Now hear me out...don't start   
   trashing until you read the whole post.   
         My point is that those that have greater experience and confidence   
   will sometimes not recognize the first   
         small step in a chain of events that sets you up for failure. It must   
   be said that you have to respect where   
         you are all the time. No matter how familiar you are with where you   
   are. A good saying I once heard went   
         something like... Every time you jump into a river, it's a different   
   river. (how much water is flowing, what time   
         of day, what time of year, temperature, etc.   
      
        Your level of comfort or expertise exists in it's form as long as your   
   view of the world doesn't change or only   
         changes the way you expect. And that is not guaranteed.  The world   
   doesn't much care about your view of it.   
      
          Of course if we play too safe (for lack of a better term) we never   
   experience any fun. Risk/reward loop and all   
           that. In the end Kim made a bad choice. But you can also do   
   everything right and still die and you can do   
           everything wrong and still live. As I have said before   
   though..."Chance favors the prepared mind."   
      
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   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)