Spencer Corson

Most of us, you know, when we put our seatbelts on, it's not that we're expecting to get into an accident.

It's that we understand that there's a likelihood of us getting into an accident.

We want to participate in our own protection.

The same holds true for anywhere we go.

If something was to break bad, where would I go?

How would I get out of here?

What other than the door that I just walked into?

What are the other exits?

Or if I get that feeling that something isn't right to not just argue against your survival instincts, but to actually participate in your own protection and put as much time and distance between you and that threat as possible.

Right.

And then the door is closed and you're stuck in a steel soundproof box with a bad guy.

And then you're thinking, oh, why did I do that?

Being polite is a courtesy, but protecting ourselves is a priority.

But we have, because we live in such a safe society, just sort of assumed that we're being irrational or that we're just being anxious or that we don't want to offend the feelings of someone else.

But staying safe is ultimately about trusting that survival instinct because it is that survival instinct that has allowed for the human race to survive and thrive for a millennia.

And if we keep negotiating against our own better interest, the more likely we are, the more our vigilance goes down, the more our risk goes up.

And that ultimately means that we are going to be making more and more decisions that will put us into the pitfalls of danger.

Walk away.

There is absolutely no law that states that just because someone strikes up a conversation with you that you have to have a conversation with that person.

or that because you feel a certain way, you have to give them the opportunity to prove you wrong.