Even That Guy
(Prosperity) By coincidence, last July both The New Yorker and National Geographic Adventure magazines published Survival Guides. The actual articles can be found at The New Yorker and
National Geographic Adventure 
websites, as well as a quiz to test your real wilderness survival skills. Below is mashed up the two lists, along with our own editorial bent on surviving socially. Improvise and adapt, right? We like to think Bear Grylls (left) would be proud.
1. Encourage every person who shares your bed to sleep nude, on top of the covers. You’ll want to remember your ex naked. And know that they’ll remember you in your sexiest lingerie.
2. Don’t throw a pity party. Success, they say, is the best revenge. And anger, a great motivator, burns more calories.
3. Develop a mantra. “People suck” counts, right?
4. Take it one step at a time.Because any other option leads to stitches.
5. Feel no pain. Thought control works, apparently.
6a. Accept your circumstances. Accept what you can’t change, change what you can.
6b. Find happiness in the past, contentment in the present and hope in the future. Rinse, Repeat, Resist the urge to sing "Kum Ba Yah."
7. Spend less time on the toilet. Spend as much time on the actual toilet as you need, but spend less time in the bathroom getting ready, more time out in the world.
8. Visualize your game plan. Evisceration is a game plan, right?
9. Sit tight. Stay put, and resist the temptation to change who you are because of someone else’s actions.
10. Be glad for what you’ve got. This also works in reverse – take time to be glad for what you don’t got. Sometimes it’s nice to know it’s someone else’s problem.
Write to us, and let us know what helps you get through the minutes, hours and days. We'll be updating this list frequently.
