Tuesday Teaser/Opening ~ The Survivor's Club

I'm currently reading The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life by Ben Sherwood.

Blurb: 
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?

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.

There is no escaping life's inevitable struggles. But THE SURVIVORS CLUB can give you an edge when adversity strikes.

Opening:
First they tell you not to panic then they try to drown you.

(That may be the best first line of any non-fiction book ever.)

Teaser:
He discovered that survivors usually move an average of five rows before they escape a burning aircraft. That's the typical "cutoff," he tells me, even though some survivors have managed to scamper as many as nineteen rows.

Would you read this?

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