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Originally Posted by Slava
I've watched most of the seasons (maybe all of them?). It's a great show and I like seeing this every summer!
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Yeah, IIRC, it was often someone with something to prove that would do something dumb. Especially those special forces/army type guys.
"Imma filter water through moss because I can't do fire right now and I bet it's clever... I got sick due to sodium ingestion, and in my state, I walked up 100 meters upstream to investigate and found a lot of rotting carcasses... oops! Gotta bail."
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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
I always marvel at how limited the mental preparedness of the contestants is.
They always get lonely, or, alternatively, they feel like their family cannot do without them out of some ego trip.
Some meditation and mental resolve, and these people would likely be winning. They aren't starving or freezing to death, and yet they leave. It kills me every time.
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I think it's the lack of social interaction that accelerates the decay of their mental resolve. I think in some of the earlier seasons, a few guys said that being forced to journal on the cameras was one of the few things that kept them sane and connected to civilization. I think (could be wrong) one guy said that he'd tested being alone before, but not knowing when the end date vs knowing he'd be back with people in his own attempts was a huge part of messing with his head. There's something unnerving about an undetermined time limit that's harder to cope with than a fixed time limit to push towards.
It's not like hunger games where they camp out and a firework goes off after every elimination to figure out the time they have to stay out there. There's completely no sense of understanding of how much time is left to their situation. A bunch of the guys eliminated in the first few weeks or a month or so often think they're the weakest link and one of the first to quit. They're often surprised that a good 4-6 contestants have quit before them, some for legitimate and not weak willed reasons.
Like being left beside a game trail by accident and being legit stalked by predators... no weapons... I'd self eliminate too. Winning money is pointless if you're dead.