The Survivors Club – Survival guides are a dime a dozen, and many times when an individual succumbs to one of these lengthy books, they are often left looking for the chapter on how to survive reading to the end.
Fortunately there is a new book that teaches readers how to survive harrowing situations through stories of people who have experienced such things, including having been attacked by a lion, jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge, receiving a knitting needle to the heart and so much more.
“The Survivors Club” by Ben Sherwood is an excellent book that relates several stories of people who have survived devastating situations and how they personally persevered and lived to tell the tale.
The real success of the book lies in Sherwood’s personal one-on-one interviews and rigorous military training that he subjected himself to with the purpose of uncovering how people survive when circumstances dictate they shouldn’t.
The story begins with Sherwood at the U.S. Marine Corps air station in Miramar, Calif., where he steps up to a series of intense tests, starting with treading in a pool fully-dressed in military fatigues and equipment. The tests quickly escalate when he has to swim through submerged tunnels and find the appropriate escape hatch in order to make it back to the surface.
Surprisingly, this ratther out-of-shape writer succeeds with flying colors. According to Sherwood, the key to passing these tests is keeping calm and focusing on an object to help keep one’s bearings as they navigate the course.
Where the book tends to become long and droning is toward the middle when a lengthy amount of pages are spent on religion and how that has been the key to survival for some.
Sherwood goes on to tell the stories of countless individuals who were near death but survived because of prayer.
The scientific argument for prayer is known as “spontaneous remissions,” which is the term for inexplicable cases when disease abruptly disappears.
The Survivors Club
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