

In these days of massive censorship, this is wise, even if you normally consume The Worthy House on some other platform. You can subscribe to writings published in The Worthy House. All of these accord with common sense, but the book goes into the whys and wherefores in an interesting and informative manner. Second, and related, “Above all, it is essential to take the initiative-to remember that you and your neighbors must save yourselves.” Third, maximizing your self-confidence and perceiving yourself as the captain of your fate, if you can, hugely increase your chances of survival. First, by default, ignore anything those in charge say during a disaster, especially any instructions they give you. You can boil down the survival advice in this book to three principles. Few are easy to change-but any bit helps, I suppose. Some are merely extremely difficult to change and in practice immutable for the individual, such as culture and education. Many of these are innate and wholly unchangeable, such as sex, intelligence and ability to absorb stress, each of which is a critical factor in survival. And while the book accomplishes the goal of self-help for the attentive reader, even more it shows that who lives and who dies mostly results from characteristics of the individual. But the promised self-improvement isn’t better organization, inner peace or higher task efficiency rather it is increased odds of living through a disaster.

The Unthinkable is basically a self-improvement manual.
