The Jungle is Neutral

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This is simple goal-directed behavior. John Leach, who has studied why some people survive extreme events and others perish, explains why goal-directed behavior is critical to responding well under adversity:

In his book, The Jungle is Neutral, Freddy Spencer Chapman describes his experience as a World War II British soldier fighting in the Malaysian jungles. The fighting was intense, but the effect on the soldiers’ mindset was even more unsettling: The 1st Battalion Scots Guards (1SG), together with a range of other British Army units and our allies from Belize, had to get comfortable being uncomfortable in one of the world’s most unforgiving environments on Exercise Mayan Storm. Personally it was a revelation to read Chapman’s account. As a young Malaysian, it was revealing to read about the places Chapman traveled to - places that have been developed, urbanized and look completely different today. His story gives me a sense of the heritage that is slowly disappearing, but also drives home how far we have come in a very short amount of time. Mostly it comes as a reminder that despite what people say about existing race relations in Malaysia, we truly have made exponential progress with living together and recovering from war. There is a bit of hope in that at least. Otherwise I hope that we do not further lose our heritage and history, something that is further driven home when I read about Chapman’s time with the Sakai and their hospitality.This is probably one of the best non-fiction's I've read for a while. Chapman's narrative is very straightforward and easy to understand. His intent is to communicate, rather than impress, and that is a huge relief (not to mention even more impressive). I don't mind books using the more complex vocabulary that seems to be disappearing from the English language (because how do we prevent them from disappearing?), but I do get irritated when they are used excessively, and when a much simpler sentence would have been more effective. After not very long, however, and of course after the fall of Singapore, his access to sabotage weaponry disappeared. At that point, at liberty in occupied Malaya, he was able to do very little and he spent the next three years essentially living rough in the jungle and trying to train the locals in the techniques of guerilla warfare. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2023-01-31 12:03:55 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40823109 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Moynahan, Brian (2009). Jungle Soldier, The true story of Freddy Spencer Chapman. Quercus. ISBN 978-1849160766. Lccn 88029554 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL2051825M Openlibrary_edition

Your responses to market events are what matters. The market never forces a buy or sell. You do. You choose how to behave based on your training, incentives, leverage, emotions, goals, etc. These factors are under your control. It’s never preset how you should or will react. In between the Greenland Expeditions he attempted what was to become the Bob Graham Round fell running challenge, 70 miles (112.7km) and 30,000 feet (9,100m) of climbing in the English Lake District Fells, his time of 25 hours was not however a record.

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There will be further posts to this series where I’ll showcase my modified Perentie FFR (Fitted For Radio) and Perentie RFSV (Regional Force Surveillance Vehicle) as well as post a bit about my adventures through Northern Australia in the Lizard. Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.1

In-service, the RFSV was used for long-range reconnaissance patrols and surveillance missions, in places where fuel, water and ration resupply was unlikely. Accordingly, the vehicles had to have a high carrying capacity. There were many instances where a full 200lt (44 gallon for our UK readers or 55 gallon for our US readers) steel drum of diesel was strapped down in the cargo area of the RFSV either for caching during the patrol or for refuelling the two RFSVs which typically made up a 6-man Regional Force Surveillance Unit (RFSU) vehicle-borne patrol. Add in camouflage netting, poles and hessian shrouds, spare parts, oils, ammunition, specialised optics and sensors, munitions, OP equipment, patrol crew-served weaponry, personal equipment and lots of water jerrycans, zodiac inflatable boat, engine, boat fuel and many of these vehicles were operated well over their weight limit. Freeman adds, "despite leading such an extraordinary life, Chapman still felt unfulfilled. For someone who had always sought 'to experience the fullness of life, and the inner satisfaction that comes from facing and overcoming danger', old age [apparently] offered few pleasures. [20] Reputation and legacy [ edit ] After the fall of Malaysia to the Japanese, the unflappable F. Spencer Chapman survived for years in the jungle as a guerilla fighter. The Jungle is Neutral is his amazing tale of survival and valor against all odds. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2012-06-25 17:52:22 Bookplateleaf 0009 Boxid IA1149001 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Alexandria, Va. DonorIn the 2009 financial crisis, there were investors who made a lot during the crisis (think those who shorted subprime), some who lost it all (those heavily invested in Lehman/Bear Stearns or who bailed at the bottom), and many investors somewhere between those two extremes. The jungle was neither for nor against any soldier. Neither good nor bad. Just neutral. How soldiers responded to this neutral environment determined the “good” or “bad” outcomes. I liked this book, but I never would have made it in his situation. I can't really express how much I admire this man and how he persevered in the face of everything he went through. During the course of one year, he mentions dealing with malaria for at least one-third to one half of the time. That's crazy. As for the writing itself, it can be a bit repetitive at times, but that's reflective of what he went through. When you deal with malaria numerous times, it's going to be mentioned numerous times. This isn't a criticism, it's just an observation. You get a sense that he threw in with the communist Chinese guerrillas despite their politics in frustration at how little the British were doing to exploit an ideal geographical and cultural environment for insurgency.

No environment, no matter how adverse, determines how you can or will react. You decide how you will react. That’s the power of agency. And that has lessons for investors.

Whilst at Sedbergh School, Chapman won a Kitchener scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge, in 1926, to study history and English. It was there that he developed his passion for adventure and, by the end of his university years, had already completed several overseas excursions including a climbing expedition in the Alps and a journey to Iceland to study plant and bird life. [3] It was here that he met, and was inspired by, the great mountaineer Geoffrey Winthrop Young, and joined the Cambridge University Mountaineering Club (CUMC). [6] Expeditions [ edit ] Freddy Spencer Chapman's account of his years in the Malayan jungle fighting the Japanese, and one of the most memorable accounts of warfare to emerge from World War 2. What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.4 Acceptance of this responsibility replaces a victim mentality with an agency mentality. You free yourself from being reactive to being proactive. From defensive to offensive.