Actually, Survivor is a game in which the participants are genuinely challenged both physically and mentally, throughout a rather prolonged period.

Anyone can play along, wondering what they would wish to do, if part of the group.

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The central question is: What would you be prepared to do for a huge amount of money, and, indeed, is there anything you wouldn't do, for a million dollars?

So the contestants test their physical and mental strength and limits, their skills at group dynamics, their morals and values. Each time someone loses and is voted off, think through their behaviour up to that point, not merely in the immediate run-up to tribal council, and ask yourself what they did to make them so vulnerable, and what others did to avoid that fate.

Some of the lessons that can be learnt by watching attentively are as applicable round the office water-cooler as they are round the island waterhole.

There's much more to learn from series like this and The Apprentice, than from Idols or Australian Rules Cricket.

(Professor M.A Simpson, aka Cybershrink, October 2005)
 

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