Success Lessons From The Man Who Was Lost In the Jungle
mixergy.comWow I love this. I really love this. And I'm convinced that this is the simple truth.
And you forgive me for expressing my totally personal ideas, "The essence of his story is connected with the essence of Buddhism". (Any religion is great. But I just see with the lenses in front of my mind.)
His message is great; his story amazing. But consider: for a living he gives inspirational speeches. What odds he accidentally wound up in a situation that gives him a lifetime of stories to tell?
I know it sounds unreal, but check out the Washington Post article about him which I quoted in the interview. You'll see that he does more than give speeches to help people. http://bit.ly/3Ubb5B
I humbly apologize for my stupid remark. I admit I didn't do any diligence, I was just trying to sound smart.
Great interview. Very enlightening to say the least. He should be on TED.com. When is the Barack Mitra interview available?
I did it last week. I should post it in a few days.
This was pretty amazing to read:
> It's a long story. But the first thing is, there was one moment where there was fruit on the tree, and I'm climbing on the tree, and there was a snake on the branch, and I want the fruit. So, the snake is in trouble. So, I manage to hit the snake off the branch, and it's a deadly snake. And before I know it, I'm flying off the tree after the snake, grabbing his tail, killing that snake, peeling its skin and chewing it alive. And I feel the best I've ever felt in my life. And then I'm coming back to my senses, and I recall that just minutes ago, I was miserable. I cannot handle the situation.
> So, wow. And that's a very important thing that I have realized. There are a few important things. First of all, we don't need to learn survival. We know it. Nobody needs any course, any kit, any book. It's completely nonsense. We know survival very well, that's what we know best.
"... First of all, we don't need to learn survival. We know it. Nobody needs any course, any kit, any book. It's completely nonsense. We know survival very well, that's what we know best. ..."
There are 2 reasons this statement could be wrong. The first is this survivor bias, we dont read the stories of non survivors. The second from the transcript...
Basic includes lots of handy tips for survival. Untrained beginner he aint."... Well, the obvious reason was I finished my military service. ..."Having gone through similar Basic Training to Yossi's, I can testify it contains less jungle survival knowledge than most boyscouts pick up during their training.
Basic Training is short, and most of the time is spent on elementary soldier skills such as handling your equipment, coordinated movement etc (a lot more difficult to learn than it seems in CoD4 :)). Since he didn't have a gun with him in the jungle, his odds would be pretty much the same as the average young backpacker.
"... I can testify it contains less jungle survival knowledge than most boyscouts pick up during their training. ..."
thanks I didn't expect IDF basic to be so "basic".
"... his odds would be pretty much the same as the average young backpacker. ..."
Didn't expect that.