Survival is a state of mind, but there are a lot of perceptions that are wrong that greatly reduce your chances on making it out in one piece.

Mainly they are assuming you know more than you know.

Or, we get ourselves in a situation we think we can handle but cannot.

That could be assuming that because we have hiked a trail before nothing could happen, that we can start a fire in any condition because we did a few times in a controlled environment in our backyard, that  or that because we read “it” online or saw a video, that we are experts in fields we really are not.

In the best case, these types of assumptions merely make us uncomfortable. In the worst, one bad assumption can kill you.

The video on the next page covers just a sliver of exactly how many things we assume that are just flat out wrong.

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