Many, many years ago I took some survival courses as part of my training to become a woodsman (too long a story for here).  Brendt Berglund, the person doing the training, was an artic survival specialist training the Canadian Armed Forces and he did a lot of search and rescue work. In one of the sessions he asked us what we thought when we heard the word panic.  People responded with words like afraid, irrational, frantic and hysterical.  Brendt then told us a series of search and rescue stories.  In one situation,......

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