Your WILL to survive is more important than your SKILL to survive.
Category Archives: Live Smart
Buying Clothing, Gear & Equipment…
The message here is “Quality…Not Quantity”.
Proper kit makes a huge difference, especially if you expect it to potentially save your life. Before making your next purchase, remember this quote:
“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten”.
– Benjamin Franklin
Fill your Head…Empty Your Pack
Knives in a Survival Situation…
The Red Circle
An amazing book on real life leadership, surviving adversity, and persevering through the challenges of life.
Cost: Around CDN $20
Survival Stories
Spend a day immersing yourself in survival situations through a compilation of some of the greatest tales of survival ever. Live through harrowing true life adventures from the safety of your favourite reading spot and gain a new appreciation for those who’ve survived some of the most extraordinary survival ordeals ever recorded.
“The Best Survival Stories Ever Told recounts stories of ordinary mortals who achieved extraordinary things. Spanning the ice-locked Poles and the endless deserts of Arabia to the storm-tossed South Atlantic, the rainforests of the Amazon, and sheer peaks of the Himalayas, it charts the dangerous relationship between men and nature.”
“Jon E. Lewis is a historian and writer, whose books on history and military history are sold worldwide. Jon holds graduate and postgraduate degrees in history, and his work has appeared in New Statesman, the Independent, Time Out, and the Guardian. He is also editor of SAS: The Elite Special Forces in their Own Words.”
ISBN: 978-1-61608-455-4
Cost: Around CDN $13