Once again a very good book from PersonnalMBA ! Written by Laurence Gonzales, it explain how accident happens and why people live or die in survival situation. This is actually the two main parts of the book. This book use a lot of philosophy (mainly Stoicism and Taoism ), a lot of real examples and statistics studies. This is a very opening and inspiring book and, even if it's main public is people who wants to go to the wild or do dangerous thing, it's also very useful for "common" people or business. At each time of your life or your business, you will find yourself facing difficult situation : divorce, loosing your job, a big contract ... At this time, you should have a survivor mentality (or philosophy) to pass these events with the less problems ! Here, the survival's rules directly taken from the book : look, see, believe : accept the reality of the situation. Stay calm : use humor; use fear to focus. Think/Analyse/Plan : get organized; set up small, manage...
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