Read a cool book recently: Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales. It's about people in crisis situations, survival situations and how our minds and bodies react. How we can best train ourselves for survival situations. The author has done heaps of research and tells lots of stories in the book about survival situations, both where people have survived and where people have died. It was a fascinating book that I would highly recommend, to anyone interested in how the human mind / body reacts to stress / crisis situations, not just to outdoors orientated people.
Amazing and scary, the book goes through how our minds can lock onto what we expect to see and see that and nothing else. People have the ability to apparantly make completely irrational decisions when lost or panicking. It is easy for us to think we would never do that, but will we get to find out until its too late?
Its got me thinking lots about how firstly I can interact with life and risk. There is a fine balanced line to walk between experience making life safer, and experience leading you to let your guard down. Secondly how I percieve the world around me. How much is actual observation, how much is my mind seeing what it expects to see.
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