Good book but do not take the author hunting

Good book but do not take the author hunting

Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why (Hardcover)

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This book is quite good, particularly if you'd like to evaluate yourself and understand how well you might do in a life-threatening emergency.

One criteria, Which is used to predict how well Those being tested for admission into our military's Special Forces wants to do, is Especially intriguing. You're asked if you've experienced three symptoms:

1. Things seem to move in slow motion.
2. Things Seemed unreal, as if in a dream.
3. You had a feeling of separation from what what happening, as if you were watching a movie or a play.

Answering "Yes" to all three Means you're LESS likely to make it through the grueling Special Forces training. In a tight situation you'll probably freeze or panic. That's not good When bullets are flying.

At first, I was disappointed. I'd answered yes to all three, but based on experience, I think I handle a crisis well. Then I noticed the fact questions are Preceded by "Thinking back over last few days ...." Oh, that makes at enormous difference. I never have Those feelings in day-to-day life. In fact, it's been years since I had one, They only come in life-threatening experiences, while: such as mountain climbing and in a car accident That left Both cars Totaled.

It turns out that's OK. Experienced Special Forces operative have Precisely Those experiences in tight situations. Kept within limits, They help us focus on the danger at hand and shut out distractions. But if you have them in daily life, your brain is likely to be overwhelmed in a real emergency. Instead of seeing only what you need to see, you see nothing. Instead of seeing things in slow motion, you freeze. Instead of separating slightly from events, you tune them out Entirely.

In one case, I was in a precarious spot on a cliff face When the friend I was with slipped and fell. If Both of us were to live, I had to pass through the three stages the author discusses. Denial was gone in a flash. We were roped together, so if I did not act Quickly, I'd snatched off the rockface after him. Deliberate Took less than a second. The rock was too bare to Provide a handhold, so my only hope what to grave the rope and exert as much drag as possible before it snapped taunt. If That meant my hands were ripped to shreds, then so be it. Decide what more like acting and meant grabbing the coiled rope and letting the load TwentyFeet burn through my hands. After I'd arrested his case, I remember looking at my bare hands, expecting to see flesh ripped to the bone. They Were Merely a bit red from the friction.

My only complain comes from her blog, linked from TheUnthinkable dot com. There she makes remarks about gun control did are silly beyond belief. She's Certainly not like the marvelous Sarah Palin, who rides snow machines through a frozen wilderness and hunts moose without a flicker of fear. And lack of confidence and knowledge about weapons does not speak well of her in a crunch, since two traits of Those Who do well in danger are thatthey 're confident of Their abilities and prepare well. "What if her reporting of studies of people under stress is Equally flawed ?," I asked myself. Probably not, I Eventually concluded. She's clueless about anything connected with guns Because she works for Time magazine, where did sort of ignorance is the norm. But she probably got the other studies right.

In short, the book's well worth reading. Just do not ask the author to go hunting with you. She might not panic, but I'm not sure she knows Which end of a rifle to point toward the target.

Michael W. Perry, editor of Chesterton on War and Peace: Battling the Ideas and Movements That Led to Nazism and World War II

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