The Survivor's Club by Ben Sherwood

The Survivor’s Club
by Ben Sherwood
Grand Central/Hachette 2010

Have you ever had a tragedy or accident that threatened your survival? Perhaps an airplane crash, lost in the wilderness, alone with a killer, assaulted, robbed, sinking boat, or worse. How did you respond? You must have survived or you would not be reading these words.

If you have never had such a situation, do you think you are a survivor? How could you prepare yourself to be a survivor.

The Survivor’s Club is about survivors from a global collage of catastrophes, ranging from the Holocaust to plane crash survivors and everything in between. It is a non-fiction book by a broadcast producer.

Like you, I have always been curious about what differentiates people. Some succeed and others fail in the same situation. Or have black and white perceptions of the same events seen or experienced at the same time. Faced with a life and death situation is the ultimate of these situations. Mr. Sherwood notes the Theory of 10-80-10. In a calamity, 10% of us react with calm and rational state of mind. 80% of us are deer in the headlights, and 10% of us always to the worst thing. If I am in the cold ocean with you after a ship wreck, I want you to be in the top 10% as you want me to be.

So what it is it that separates survivors from non-survivors? Mr. Sherwood reports on a vast array of comments from survivors. The common denominator of survival seems to be faith. Faith in self and faith in divinity watching over you. To me, these two elements of faith may be the same.

If you would like to think through how to prepare yourself to survive – whether in emergencies or every day life – read this then take the Survivor’s Profile on line. As Mr. Sherwood quotes, “[a] survival situation brings out the true, underlying personality. Our survival kit is inside of us.”

Are you the 10% to be hoped for or the 10% to be feared?

Warms, Cym
*This book was won from Shawn's Sharings!

The Survivor's Club