Day 16: How to learn lessons from failures…
Lessons learned from the failures of others: In the military we have this thing called an after action review. Simply stated we do a movement or an event and then we talk about it when we are done. We ask a couple of really simple questions. What was supposed to happen, what actually happened, what did we do well, and finally what can we improve? Then we go out and train again until we get it right. This method allows us to see things that we are blind to. This method teaches us how to learn from our failures. I believe this can be applied to survival situations in mass and over history. I also believe that this can be used in our modern day from recent events to teach us about new threats. One example that I picked up from a book I read long ago is survival techniques and tactics of the Jewish people. No matter what your beliefs are, political or otherwise of the Jewish people they are a group of survivors. One of the main reasons they have had the capacity to endure genocides, displacement, Wars and violence is their ability to pick up and move somewhere else. Most catastrophes are Geographic in nature. the Potato Famine, Wars, earthquakes, they are all Geographic in nature. My ancestors survived the Potato Famine specifically because they went to another continent. People in recent years out of Jasper British Columbia survived a massive fire because they got in their cars and went somewhere else. Just recently people in West Virginia survived massive flooding because they also grabbed the RV and went north. Conversely, we can learn a ton from people moving back into austere environments like Ukraine. In this video one thing that I picked up that I have since used is to always have a power source for my communication devices and to always carry protein rich food as opposed to carbohydrate High food. This is something I kind of knew but didn't proactively do until this interview.
A lesson i learned is you need to keep yourself dry…
This does that for me (Grab yours above)
