There is a myth saying that you should immediately seek out food when lost in the wilderness. It's utter nonsense, as your body could survive for weeks on just the fat reserves stored inside of you.

Start a basic fire for warmth or for cooking with just two sticks? That is incredible hard, and requires a lot of effort. It also needs to be done the right way. There's way better ways of starting a fire (using glass as a lens, for example). Not taking any matches or a lighter with you because you want to start a fire with two sticks is plain stupid.

Doing it how it's done on TV is a bad idea, as most of it is scripted and pumped up with fakeness for entertainment value. Rely on common sense and not on knowledge you've obtained from a reality show.

Sucking the venom from a snake bite won't prevent it from spreading throughout the body. It's a dumb myth shown in the movies.

There's a much higher chance you become friends with the bear then you'd outrun it. I'm not saying that you should try to befriend it, more like it's almost impossible to outrun a bear, even for a professional sprinter.

Drinking alcohol doesn't increase your body temperature. You might feel warmer, because your body temperature actually drops and your blood vessels that are near your skin dilate, but that causes you to lose heat faster.

Move to a higher ground if it gets chilly? That's not very wise. Some say that if you get to a higher ground, it's going to be warmer there, but they don't take to account that the higher you get, the more windy it can get also.

Many are told to swim alongside the shore to avoid rip currents. Some currents, are diagonal and some are longshore, meaning swimming parallel to the shore doesn't always keep you safe.

Trying too hard to follow a survival scenario might actually be a bad idea. Spending energy to build shelter instead of actually searching for help or finding food that can turn out to be poisonous can be more dangerous than a wild beast.

When you’re impaled by an object, don't pull it out as soon as possible. This would only cause you to start bleeding out fast. Don't worry about infections - if there's no way you can clean the wound and close it properly, better keep whatever is stuck inside your flesh until you find proper aid.