Much can be said about non-combat survival situations.
In these cases, mental toughness is often your best shot at making it.
Any quick Google search can bring up thousands of articles and tips on survival.
These recruits learn mental toughness during exposure to CS gas in basic training at the U.S. Navy Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, IL. Image: MCS1C S. Fling/U.S. Navy
We even havemany survival articlesright here onThe Armory Life.
The physical tools to help accomplish your survival goals are limitless as well.
We cant mitigate a threat we refuse to believe exists.
Situational Awareness Increases Survival Chances
Situational awarenessis another skill you better learn and practice.
it’s possible for you to get your family involved too make it a game.
Pay attention to people and what theyre doing, or what theyre looking at.
You have to maintain a positive attitude.
In many ways, it is the cornerstone to mental strength.
Your attitude directly impacts our ability to survive and how we approach survival training.
This U.S. soldier conducts a training patrol in Columbia during Exercise Southern Vanguard ’23. Image: Sgt. R.J. Lannom Jr./U.S. Army
Your brain truly is the best survival tool you have.
Train it, use it, survive with it.
It affects your ability to survive.
Being mentally tough increases your chances of survival!
