People adapt to their environment.Ĭonsequently, the abilities required to live and thrive in a protected milieu, under a more civilized and clear set of rules, are necessarily different. ![]() A higher degree of street smarts is necessary to better navigate all that. Maybe a fighter, and certainly a survivor – or adapted to deal with open, fluid contexts, a great variety of events, people, and situations (and of course more danger). That doesn’t mean everyone coming from such places is a warrior. Or else.Īnd in fact, as a rule, people raised in rough settings or any place where conditions are hard, resources scarce, and life is overall more dangerous quickly develop some thick skin, acumen and wit, and a much-needed nuanced social interaction ability. Growing free-range in precarious and unsafe settings, you wise up and learn to fend for yourself. In the outskirts and favelas (slums) of developing countries and destitute neighborhoods anywhere, two-year infants play in the streets without adult supervision. A hard life turns people into survivors at an early age. And these are becoming more tense and downright treacherous at a fast pace everywhere, evidencing the importance of cultivating some top-dog shrewdness to pull through. Whichever way things go in the world (the big circles, as Selco calls it ), city dwellers will have to contend with the realities of their streets and neighborhoods (the small circles, again per Selco). Dickson)īeing street smart is defined as having the experience and knowledge necessary to deal with the potential difficulties or dangers of life in an urban environment. Paul The Peddler ( Wolf And Iron, Gordon R. Until you learn this is a different world nowadays, that you’re either top dog or bottom dog, that there’s no such thing as in-between dog, you’re a walking risk to yourself”. ![]() Street smarts are an asset, and even more so in volatile and turbulent times. By the author of Street Survivalism: A Practical Training Guide To Life In The City and The Ultimate Survival Gear Handbook
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