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.