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What Your Survival Skills Telling You About Your Chances

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Knowing what skills you possess and have spent a lifetime learning throughout your life experiences, hobbies and pursuits will inevitably be the determining factors that either prove to be your success or failure during the most critical times of your survival.

Regardless of what age you are, you have already spent your life learning and accumulating skills and talents in one form or another. These skills are the difference between success or failure in any field or endeavor, whether you are trying to pass a calculus exam or building a fire to stay alive during a winter blizzard.

Those skills that you develop and learn are directly related to the overall chances, so much so that if you were applying for a job, and did not have a particular set of skills, you would likely not land that job, or even consider applying in the first place.

When was the last time you applied to be a Heart Surgeon, without having the skills to do heart surgery? I'd be willing to bet that you haven't done that and that you would laugh at the sheer absurdity of the attempt.

Yet, people who have never trained survival skills are somehow under the impression that survival is an "easy task", that just anyone can muster up to the plate and be successful at.

Nothing is farther from the truth in this regard.

Like applying for a job as a surgeon, you might not get the job because you could seriously hurt or kill someone if you do not possess the proper skill set.

When it comes to survival training, the same is true, but in this case, the first person that you might hurt or get killed will likely be yourself, and then that means Game Over.

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You Are Always Learning, Hopefully

Commit To Learning For a Lifetime And Grow Your Skills

The more you learn and practice, the better you hone your skills and the less you will need to practice the basic skills you already know, this will free up your time and brain power so that you can learn and grow newer skills.


You Never Know Exactly What Skill You Will Need

Until you actually need to use a skill, you may not know you needed it. Better to have them, before you need them.


Learn New Skills Now and Practice Those Skills Often

The sooner you begin learning the skills that could someday save your life, and the lives of those around you, the better your chances of survival will be overall.


Take Notes, Buy Books, Build A Library

You should always take good notes on new skills that you learn, and at the bare minimum you should buy a few books on topics that are easy to refer back to from time to time.

The more knowledge you learn, the more valuable your expertise will be at the time it is needed.

The more you learn, the more you already know, and the greater your chances of success
within any endeavor, especially survival.

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Popular Survival Books

Consider adding these books to your survival library if you haven't already done so.

It is always best to share those skills and practice them with your family, friends, and loved ones.

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Common Skills For Effective Survival And Prepping

Almost any skill or talent can be applicable to some survival situations, depending on the overall need of any situation.

Regardless of what skills you presently have, I challenge you to determine how it could be useful in an emergency, crisis or in the event you were lost in the woods.

The more abilities that you determine could be useful in adverse situations, the better prepared you will find yourself when that time comes.

This also allows you to gain a bit of confidence in those skills once you know that they are actually useful outside of your normal daily routines.

There are potentially hundreds of different skills that equally depend on other skills, interact with even more sub-skills, and even apply on a much deeper level in some manner to yet even more skills.

Skills and talents will overlap, and be useful in even more situations then you are likely to figure out on your first few attempts to figure out what you know.

It's ok to ponder these concepts as you read through the options below and see that no matter what, you have the ability to survive,

It's up to you to train your skills, no one can do it for you.

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