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9. Believe that you will succeed (develop a deep conviction that you’ll live). All of the practices just described lead to this point: Survivors consolidate their personalities and fix their determination.
Deep Survival
Laurence Gonzales
“That’s what was unique about him,” Mann observed. “He could have become totally self-absorbed and gotten into partying and all that fun stuff and the women and all these other things, but the impression I got was that he was so committed he wouldn’t allow himself to become sidetracked, even at that age. He knew he wanted to be the best and he knew the pitfall, and he wasn’t going
Michael Jordan
Roland Lazenby
The last supervolcano eruption on Earth was at Toba, in northern Sumatra, seventy-four thousand years ago. No one knows quite how big it was other than that it was a whopper. Greenland ice cores show that the Toba blast was followed by at least six years of “volcanic winter” and goodness knows how many poor growing seasons after that. The event, it is thought, may have carried humans right to the brink
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
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