423: Your Personality May Keep You From Surviving. "Psychological Aspects of Survival"

Your survival may depend more on your personality than upon danger, the enemy, the weather, the terrain, or the nature of the emergency

Survival depends a great deal on your knowing and facing the situation, but you are part of the situation

Taking action reduces fear; there is nothing that makes fear worse than hesitation

Survival requires the ability to detach from the situation

“You can only improve your weaknesses if you’re humble enough to admit them.” – Jocko Willink

Both pessimism and unrealistic optimism are equally dangerous to survival

Seek out things that make you uncomfortable so that you become more comfortable with being uncomfortable