To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.

The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.

Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.

Knowledge of the sort you need does not begin with information, it begins with experience and perception. But there is a dark and twisty road from experience and perception to correct action.