Understanding Survival

Part 2.

Let's jump right into Part 2, go watch Part 1, otherwise you're going to be very lost.

I hope that you actually did your homework assignment from part one. It was an extremely important homework assignment because when we're talking about survival here, I want you to really understand that we're not talking about theory or philosophy or just cute ideas and it doesn't matter what to to come to about survival or how much you understand it intellectually what

really makes the difference between whether this information is going to change

your life is if you actually observe it

happening in your life. You need to do a lot of observation work to be able to

understand the things that I'm talking about here. Otherwise, it's just going to go

in one ear and out the other.

So do that homework.

Hopefully you did, in which case, let's move in.

I have a few other points I want to address here before we properly get into part two.

So, first of all, properly get into part two. So first of all a note about

part one where I mentioned the part about squirrels being oak murdering machines and some people in the

comments responded and they say well well, but Leo squirrels, you know, yeah, of course squirrels eat a lot of acorns, but also the squirrels, they gather the acorns, they bury them in stashes, and then the squirrels forget about the stashes and then those oaks grow from those

stashes once the squirrel forgets about it. So in this sense the squirrel is not being

selfish but is actually helping the oak trees. And yes that's true there is an

element of that and one thing that I want to illustrate with this example actually it's really good

is that survival can be symbiotic.

It's not always the case that when you're engaging in survival activity

you're always only doing something for yourself

and never helping anybody else.

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