Maybe it's having been around so much and having done so much...........but the more desperate somebody is to get me to do something, the more I KNOW it's for THEIR benefit..............NOT mine !!  Survival is a very individual thing and your experience in life, can be the crucial factor.........being relative; one can ask " whose got the most experience " a man who's had the same experience a thousand times ( normally referred to as an expert ).......or the man whose had a thousand different experiences. I suggest the more bases you've covered, the more you'll know what to expect the second time around and be equipped & ready to deal with it.