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Mental
Attitude
Tom Brown Jr.
As I have said many times, the most important
thing in a survival situation is your mental attitude. No matter I how much you
condition your body, if your attitude is wrong, you will have a miserable
survival situation. I also sincerely do not believe that a person can condition
his body. Given any two days, a person can work out in the cold with very little
clothing on when his mental attitude is high and strong, but the next day,
having the same circumstances, he may need a lot more clothing and never be able
to fully warm up. Thus, the mental attitude was all wrong. Many times, I have
two people that are in the same survival situation, same physical makeup, yet
one will do very well ,and the other will want to quit. The only difference is
that person's mental attitude. I see it in myself also, and my performance in
the woods. Some days I can handle physical/mental stress easily and other days I
can't.
Every day I do heavy workouts and many times push my body and
mind to their limits, yet the mental attitude will make or break the situation.
I believe that most everyone has the same limits and it is only the mental
attitude that will see a person through a given situation. I know many survival
situations where huge hulking guys have crumbled while frail, weaker people have
succeeded. This is why it is so important to live in harmony and balance during
a survival situation instead of trying to fight nature. If we fight, we will
never win.
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