“The will to prepare has to be greater than the will to win, Bobby Knight.” We have analyzed multiple stories that demonstrate various kinds of strength. Chance and physical strength have little evidence. Mental and emotional evidence usually has the strongest evidence. We have seen that strengths matter the most when something important happens. The most important factor in improving people's chances of survival is mental and emotional strength.
Without mental strength, you won't have the skills to survive a crisis. Without emotional strength, you won't have the ability to handle the pressure of surviving a crisis. “He should not have built the fire under the spruce tree; he should have built it in the open” (London 22). This proves the theme because it shows how his lack of mental strength is making him make bad decisions, which makes his chances of survival worse. “He pondered the problem, then picked up a brass mirror that he had used to hail the bomber” (Hillenbrand 26). This supports the theme because it shows how he pondered the problem, which means he thought about it and then found a solution from being smart and having been trained for…show more content… Still, survival isn't entirely out of your hands. In fact, you control much more of your destiny than you may imagine” (Sherwood 23). This piece of evidence connects to the theme because it shows how much your mindset can control the outcome, while someone without the correct mindset might think that they can't do anything about it. “In other words, your attitude and behavior determine nine tenths of what happens in your life” (Sherwood 17). This evidence shows how much more your mindset controls what happens in your life because of your behavior than what you think is luck. Chance does not have nearly the impact on surviving a crisis as mental and physical strength
