The two biggest misconception or mistakes that can happen there are fact that you may easily conclude something like "oh, this can not happen to me here (because we are better, smarter, richer, more human or whatever)" and second one might be fact that you cannot "bond" with situation that happened to someone else somewhere far from you because situation was so hard and those people who survived and went through that look way tougher than you.

With these mindsets, you cannot understand and draw the most important lessons from the reality of their survival experiences.

In essence, we are talking about two opposite "spectrums" here, one that says "it will never happen here" and a second that says "if that ever happens I would not survive"

"If that ever happens, I will not survive."

Many people read about a situation and think, I cannot survive that situation, I cannot be prepared for that.

A long time ago, when I started to construct physical survival courses, one of my first ideas was to create a course called "A Week in Hell".