This is Jocco Podcast number 423 with Eco Charles and me Jocco Willink good evening. Good evening. I was at an event and people give me a lot of stuff at events or they mail it to me. This particular one was given to me by somebody an event.

It's an old Air Force manual from 1954.

It's called psychological aspects of survival. And people give me a lot of books like I said

and I like to look through them see what I can learn to what I can share this is this manual

there's a couple very positive things about this manual. Number one it was published like I said in 1954 so keep that in mind a little bit when

it comes to being politically correct. I understand some aspects of it, maybe not quite dialed into today's standards.

It also doesn't pull any punches.

It's written in a real direct way. it's written. So it's published in

1954 so it's probably written like 1950 to 1953 and it's based on interviews

with soldiers, airmen, sailors, Marines that were evaders,

in other words running from the enemy, prisoners of war that were captured by the enemy, and also

escapees, so people that escaped. And it's obviously from World War II in Korea Korea when both of those had just kind of ended and it quotes them

it's interesting it quotes them like anonymously through the whole book is just filled

with all these quotes from from people that were interviewed

a lot of value in each one of the different chapters but I just want to joke it focused

tonight on one section in particular it's called personality requirements for survival.

And this is what's interesting. I think you'll see that these personal personality requirements that are requirements for survival.

I think you're going to see that there are kind of requirements

for success in any realm of life, not just evading

and escaping

surviving in a prisoner of war scenario. So here we go. This thing kicks off. This is the thing that I read was like

mmm I kind of got to share this with some people. So it says personality requirements of survival.

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