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Can we truly prepare for disaster?

And if so, what is the best way to become disaster-proof?

Well, this is funny because when the book, original book came out 16 years ago, I had a different

answer. How do people and groups behave at the worst of times and what can we learn from that in order to do better.

The arc of human behavior across all of the things we've talked about is the same three stages.

Denial followed by deliberation and then the decisive moment which is where

everything that has happened in those first two stages plays out and you either

take action or not it's an action that's either wise in retrospect or not. It's an action that's either wise in retrospect or not, right? And a lot of that

depends on what's happened in the first two phases. So it reminds you that all the time

your brain is censoring, filtering, sinking input for you and at times of

extreme duress things can go really haywire.

You're trying with the training, right, as always to keep, you know this from your military experience, you're trying with the training right as always to keep you know this from your military experience you're trying to keep things in that green zone where it's helpful to you and you don't deteriorate

So the next crisis we face as a country or as a civilization, the first question should be who's

been through this before and what do they know.

For me that's really been very helpful.

I'm Amanda Ripley, a journalist and the author of The Unthinkable.

Welcome to Everforward Radio.

So this brand new study recently came out that may explain why some of us are aging faster than we should,

resulting in impaired metabolic, liver, and heart health.

This condition is now called cellular fragility syndrome and it's caused by a deficiency

in a nutrient called C15. It's been 75 years since the last

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