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| | Features | Recommended by Dr. OzRecommended by Tom BrokawRiveting throught the end of the bookNew York Times Best SellerThe Survivors Club could save your life
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| | Description | Which is the safest seat on an airplane? Where is the best place to have a heart attack? Why does religious observance add years to your life? How can birthdays be hazardous to your health?
THE SURVIVORS CLUB
Each second of the day, someone in America faces a crisis, whether it's a car accident, violent crime, serious illness, or financial trouble. Given the inevitability of adversity, we all wonder: Who beats the odds and who surrenders? Why do some people bound back and others give up? How can I become the kind of person who survives and thrives?
The fascinating, hopeful answers to these questions are found in THE SURVIVORS CLUB. In the tradition of Freakonomics and The Tipping Point, this book reveals the hidden side of survival by combining astonishing true stories, gripping scientific research, and the author's adventures inside the U.S. military's elite survival schools and the government's airplane crash evacuation course.
With THE SURVIVORS CLUB, you can also discover your own Survivor IQ through a powerful Internet-based test called the Survivor Profiler. Developed exclusively for this book, the test analyzes your personality and generates a customized report on your top survivor strengths.
There is no escaping life's inevitable struggles. But THE SURVIVORS CLUB can give you an edge when adversity strikes.
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Ben Sherwood | | Hardcover: | 400 pages | | Publisher: | Grand Central Publishing | | Publication Date: | January 26, 2009 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0446580244 | | Product Length: | 6.33 inches | | Product Width: | 1.25 inches | | Product Height: | 9.33 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.37 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.1 inches | | Package Width: | 6.0 inches | | Package Height: | 1.4 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 179 reviews |
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278 of 289 found the following review helpful:
 Life lessons Jan 26, 2009
By Julie Neal
Here's a club everyone wants to be a member of. It's probably human nature to wonder if you have what it takes to survive in a crisis. This thought-provoking book not only profiles dozens and dozens of people who have done just that, it also gives you a way to grade yourself on your likely survivorship, and tips on how to raise your score. You even learn which seats on an airplane are the safest (be near an exit, and forget about that window seat).
The three rules of the Survivors Club, according to author Ben Sherwood, are that everyone is a survivor, one person's crisis can't be compared to another's, and people are stronger than they know. Attitude has a lot to do with it. If you see yourself as a survivor, you'll likely be one.
You learn many of the reasons why people do not survive. One is called the Incredulity Response -- people simply don't believe what they are seeing. Two gripping stories bring this idea to life. In the first, a car-ferry sinking in the Baltic Sea, many victims didn't move or try to get out of the sinking ship, but were rather "frozen to the spot" looking like "marble statues, pale and immoveable." 852 passengers died. In the second story, a fire in London's Underground train station killed 31 people, with many commuters marching "right into the disaster, almost oblivious to the crush of people -- some actually in flames -- who were trying to escape."
"Brainlock" is another reason some people in crisis die. They respond to the shock of the situation by forgetting to think. "Under stress... people often display memory problems. They seem to forget what they're supposed to do." This isn't good if you're skydiving. As Sherwood puts it, "panic is the archenemy of survival."
The final section of the book is devoted to helping you understand your own survivor potential, with quizzes to take and a website to visit.
Reading this book will make you think about how you live your life, and ways to ensure you can keep on living. It's fascinating.
Here's the chapter list:
Prologue: Brace for Impact
Introduction: The Survivors Club
Part 1: What It Takes to Survive
1. A Knitting Needle Through the Heart: The Three Rules of the Survivors Club
2. The Statues in the Storm: Why So Many People Die When They Shouldn't
3. Ninety Seconds to Save Your Life: The Wrong (and Right) Things to Do in a Plane Crash
4. The Organ Recital: Who Lives and Dies in the ER
5. The Supersonic Man: How Much of Life (and Death) Do You Really Control?
6. Rescued from the Lion's Jaws: Prayer, Miracles, and the Power of Faith
7. The Dancer and the Angel of Death: How Did Anyone Survive the Holocaust?
8. The Science of Luck: Why Good Things Always Happen to the Same People
9. Hug the Monster: How Fear Can Save Your Life
10. Too Mean to Die: Does the Will to Live Make Any Difference
11. The Resilience Gene: Who Bounces Back and Who Doesn't
12. What Does Not Kill Me: Why Adversity is Good for You
Part 2: Are You a Survivor?
13. The Survivor Profiler: Discovering Your Survivor Personality
14. Your Survivor IQ: What Type of Survivor Are You?
15. Your Survivor Tool Kit: What Are Your Top Three Strengths
Afterword / How to Eat an Elephant: The Lessons of the Survivors Club
www.TheSurvivorsClub.org
Appendix A / The Science of Falling Cats (and Babies)
Appendix B / The Arithmetic of Dying Too Soon
109 of 120 found the following review helpful:
Live Longer! Jan 26, 2009
By Sally
"SmilingSally"
In America, life expectancy is 78.14 years. If you would like to live longer, read this compelling self-help book. It's loaded with detailed research material and anecdotal tips on surviving--what to do when: being impaled with a foreign object, finding yourself lost in the woods, experiencing an airplane crash, having a heart attack, or making a trip to the ER.
Many topics are covered with proof that they help people live: the power of prayer, managing fear, the will to live, and having good genes. Adversity can work to make people appreciate life and have a better perspective. Daily joy can be experienced after a traumatic episode.
Offered are such informative chapters as: The Survivor Profile, Your Survivor IQ, and Your Survivor Tool Kit. I suggest using this volume as a resource tool. Though it is interesting enough to be read straight through, I want to keep it around to refer to often.
93 of 104 found the following review helpful:
 I give it a B or B- Aug 14, 2009
By Bibliothecaire Extraordinaire
This book was alright. I finished it, from beginning to end, which is an accomplishment in and of itself proving that if anything, the book was an entertaining read. But after a while, Sherwood seemed to repeat the same points over and over: have faith in some form of divine authority, be positive, and be on the lookout for lucky opportunities. And that is what made the book lose points, in my opinion. Everybody knows that already!
I enjoyed reading the plentiful anecdotes, but I felt disappointed by the title of the book, for the book didn't really share very many tips or science about survival, other than the three points mentioned in the paragraph above. What also made the book lose credibility was the test offered online after completing the book. Though Sherwood raved that this test was the "real deal" and as accurate and scientific as psychometrics gets, to me it seemed no more relevant than an online personality quiz or a horoscope reading in a women's fashion magazine. The results bore little resemblance to me. Rather, it sounded like feel-good babble.
Maybe if I hadn't been egged on to take that test I would have respected the book a little more. That and the lack of MORE case studies and science rendered this book nothing more than another hyped up opinion piece.
Once again, I encourage all future readers of this book to get it from their libraries; or if you absolutely MUST own a copy, get it used and at a cheap price.
31 of 34 found the following review helpful:
Stay awake nights.... learing how to survive! Jul 20, 2009
By Nicki Carmello
"Oscar"
I heard the author being interviewed on a syndicated news talk show. After listening to the first few minutes of the interview, I was convinced I needed to purchase this book which I did, then I recommended the book to my book club. I have never felt compelled to contact an author but after reading this book I did. After locating Ben Sherwood's email address, I emailed asking if he would agree to a telephone interview/conference with our book club. Much to my surprise he graciously agreed!
After reading the book, each book club member had a list of comments and questions. Mr. Sherwood spent over an hour answering our questions and provided more details about some of the survivors featured in the book. It was a fascinating experience. Each of us was enriched by this experience and as far as reading retention is concerned...? We will not soon forget the valuable lessons gleaned from reading this book.
I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn the skills required to survive some of life's most challenging events. This book isn't focused solely on how to survive a plane crash or other catastrophic events, rather, it teaches how to survive ALL life's challenges large and small. It provides an interesting quiz to discover your strong personality traits or attributes and the ones that could use a little help in improving. Who among us wouldn't find this information useful? Who knows, perhaps it could save your life! Definitely worth purchasing, but please don't let this book simply gather dust on the book shelf, read it, learn from it and then pass it on to those you love.
54 of 69 found the following review helpful:
 Disjointed...the author has a point? and it is....? Feb 21, 2010
By Been There
"World Traveler"
I think the author published this book merely to procure a revenue stream from book sales. The provocative and misleading title is great marketing, though. It certainly duped me into picking up the book at my local independent bookseller yesterday. I was unfortunate enough, during my perusal, to land on the 2 or 3 paragraphs (on different pages throughout) that made it seem worthy.
The "stories" within are disjointed, incomplete vignettes of the wandering thoughts variety. Very annoying to read as "stories" jump back and forth. Much of it isn't even stories of survival. The author clearly thinks that a 3-4 sentence summary about an event can constitute a survivor's story. This is the TV/Hollywood script sound bite presentation masquerading as a book. Teasers I believe they are called. And that is what this book is. As they say in Hollywood...Get me rewrite!!!!
How Bob has survived, if this is the way his brain computes, can only be attributed to...luck. How he even got this published can only be attributed to...connections.
Distill down the 383 pages to actually USEFUL advice and you'll have a maximum of (and I'm being extremely generous) 3 pages that might be worthwhile. Who cares if the author knows honcho Jeff Zucker and believes Jeff to be the most courageous survivor. Ever. Nothing more than name dropping or ego stroking in that bit. Puh-lease! This book is just a bunch of snippets presented in a haphazard fashion with not enough information or background to even keep the reader fully engaged on any story. I had to skip large swathes of the book within each chapter, which is saying something because I am a voracious reader and can usually engage if there is actually something interesting and/or informative about the words. Bob finds a way to disengage even me.
I will save you $14.99 and disclose all the "secrets" the book reveals: 1. Sit within 5 rows of an airplane exit, 2. Be situationally aware of your surroundings, 3. Make sure you WANT to live - keep repeating that mantra in the face of insurmountable odds, 4. Maybe you'll be lucky and survive, in spite of (or because of) your DNA, your optimism, your new-found believe in God or other higher deity at the moment of your peril etc., 5. Make sure that when you have a heart attack that you are in a Las Vegas casino and finally 6. if you're anything other than healthy and fit 16-19 year old male, then you're doomed and don't even think about being a survivor.
That No. 6 theme is pervasive throughout the book. Maybe this book would appeal to that age/gender group. Bob was there once.
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