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It may seem that when you are trying to survive a crisis you need to be strong or that you need a reason to live, but honestly you need to have not only confidence in yourself but confidence in everything around you. Having the confidence to endure a crisis will be so helpful and will push you to get through it. Also, you need to have intelligence because you will know what to do in any situation.
To begin, intelligence is the most important quality in enduring a crisis because having the smarts will be extremely helpful in every step you encounter. “I followed things by the letter then, was good at memorizing instructions so I did exactly what was taught in the second-grade home fire drill” (Erdrich 40). This quote shows that learning what to do for just-in-cause moments is important. “Tough and clearheaded, this teenage girl, who had lost her shoes
(not to mention her mother) on the first day, saved herself; the other survivors took the same eleven days to sit down and die” (Gonzales 3). This quote validates that she had the smarts to know how to get through the survival process and also that she had the common sense not just to sit there.
To end, the last quality most important in enduring a crisis is confidence, because believing in yourself can help you push through. “And yes, it means taking risks, not just for yourself but often for the people who work closely with you” (Colvin 2). This means to me that even though she knew the risks and knew that she was going to die even because of it someday she still had the confidence to get her word out there and help people. “You can’t get that information without going to places where people are being shot at, and others are shooting at you” (Colvin 4). The quote is saying that they had to go to these war zones with confidence and faith because they knew it would help someone.
It may seem that having strength or the will to live are some of the most important qualities required to survive a crisis. However, having intelligence and confidence are the most important qualities you need to survive a crisis because having smarts will be extremely helpful if you're ever going through a crisis, also having confidence and believing in yourself is important. Therefore this is why I think intelligence and confidence are so important to endure in a crisis. If you know about a crisis you will be able to know how to make a tent or know what are the most important steps. If you have the confidence and believe in yourself you will be able to push yourself to survive and make sure you never give up.
