Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Who Can You Trust?

Fear the Walking Dead, who can you trust?

After realizing that Morgan had poisoned him, Strand suddenly had a crisis of faith. He believed he knew Morgan not to be the kind of person who would do something that extreme. Trusting his instincts was what had gotten him as far and was the reason the Tower was as successful as it was. Now, his instincts had failed him, and he was at a loss about what he should do.

This is tough because no one is always right, and being 100% certain about every decision that you make isn’t as good of an idea as one might think. It may take is one mistake, one wrong decision, one lapse in judgment, to cause that certainty to falter or cause you to stick by a bad decision, just to avoid the appearance (even if only to yourself) of doubt.

You need to recognize that mistakes happen and give yourself enough wiggle room to have confidence in your decisions. Yet accept when you’ve erred, so you’re not left teetering between cascading doubt and diving deeper into a bad move.

There is another problem: If you lose your faith in yourself, it won’t take much for you to start second-guessing decisions you’ve already made. This includes trusting the people around you. If you stop trusting your instincts, you may start questioning whether you can even trust the people closest to you, believing that maybe trusting them was a mistake, too. That opens the door to paranoia.

Paranoia is an extremely slippery slope. Once you start sliding down it, it can be very tough to dig out of, as everyone becomes suspect, every appeal for you to trust them is lies or a conspiracy, and every moment you trust them is a breaking of resolve, a moment of weakness.

This is why you need to be able to accept mistakes because if you’re too rigid when those mistakes inevitably happen, they can turn your unshakeable resolve into a house of cards.

And that’s our Walking Dead Survival Rule Of The Week! There are few things more important in a zombie apocalypse than trust. It is not only the building block of any group; it is a necessity for any good survivor. If you don’t have it, you don’t have anything. If you want to trust your decisions in the apocalypse, why not pick up a copy of my book, The Rules: A Guide To Surviving The Zombie Apocalypse! You can also get it at Amazon here, on iTunes here!