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Maisy let my add some thoughts; to over come ones natural reaction to FEAR, is where training and experience comes in. One reason the military drives a trainee hard, with out sleep, in crappy conditions and under stress is to help that person learn a better way to deal with their FEAR, give them the self confidence to survive, and hopefully to come home.
Under extreme stress a person can become very cool and deliberate in action, but that is learned response. Professional military people, EMTs, Police, Firefighters etc.... will demonstrate that ability. Some thinks it comes with a cost. The stress eventually needs to be dealt with.
BTW there are types of fear, Objective and Subjective. Subjective fear is the easiest to over come, by training/experience and knowledge. Subjective fear may not even have a real threat. Objective fear is more difficult, it is a real threat. That is where the strength come from from deep down inside a person, the desire to survive and the tenacity to survive. I don't know if a person can "learn" how to act in that situation, or it is more innate. The desire to survive in not that same in all of us, from my experiences. There are others on this board who are far more qualify to speak on this than me, I hope they will.
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