Everyone dies. What makes such an obvious statement valuable or advantageous? It’s because very few people believe and accept it. Fear of death is such an overriding instinct that it is the anticipated response when a person is threatened. Indeed, it’s the only expected response from almost everyone. Perhaps some token resistance will be encountered, but basically a deep fear – the person sees impending death and is frozen in terror.

Good. You can use this to your advantage provided you have made a few decisions about your own life in advance of the moment when you are the one threatened. If you knew you had ten minutes before you die, what would you regret not doing? Regret missing? Take those ideas and act on them now, understand that you could die any time and you will die sometime. Talk with God, make peace with yourself, get yourself to a mental acceptance where you won’t have a great fear of death. Yes, you can respect it and not want to die – that is survival. Reach that acceptance of death and you have another spectacular advantage over those who would attempt to harm you.

The bad guys expect fear. They are threatening yet you are calm and relaxed. During the moments they try to sort out why your state of being doesn’t match their pre-assumptions, they will almost always realize that you just are not afraid of them. And while they are attempting to get this new situation sorted out in their heads, you can turn from your calm state into a very mean wolf and kill all the threats. They get to be dead because they wanted to kill you. Since their expectations didn’t match your actual demeanor, they got confused and you gained the instant in which to act decisively and destroy them.  It is better to be a wolf who will die sometime but isn’t afraid of death than a sheep that will cower in fear and probably die at that moment.