I also choose this man’s dead wife.

Maybe, but really when you are in bear territory, and close to areas where bear congregate (rivers being one), just a few loud claps and a couple of loud “HEYS” is good enough to flush most bears.

This video while long does a great job teaching you how to act in active bear territory.

The TLDW is: -

• In active bear territory carry bear spray and be ready to use it
• You can’t out run a bear don’t try
• bear bells don’t work
• playing dead makes it easier for the bear to maul you
• when hiking with a group and encounter an aggressive bear stand shoulder to shoulder and prepare your bear spray
• let the bear decide how they want to leave the encounter (if they are not attacking you)
• outside of a momma bear, most “attacks” are bluffs but can be scary as shit.
• guns work but you better be a good and quick shot cuz bears run fast and are very intimidating doing so
• a gun shot can help scare away most bears

That is true it is a big part of society and how to get along, and you would think that because this is one of the foundations of this society it would be a bigger part of someone’s education. This shouldn’t be something people should have to figure out on their own in order to feed themselves and their family

One semester of Schmooze 101 could go along way in helping an awkward yet brilliant scientist get the funding they need.

Yeah but people and corporations would have to change and that’s too difficult instead we should do something easy like colonize another planet. /s

Negative motivation is the real way to make changes.

It’s great to have goals and positive things to look forward to when you reach those goals.

But to be consistent in doing the hard work to reach that goal it’s better to scare the shit out of your self by asking

“what happens to me if I don’t do the work?”