Ethan believes that the survival challenge is a team-based activity and that the group needs to act as one cohesive unit to succeed.

“So, if you do want to get uh an easier raft to build you can come with me and work as a team and get some materials. We're floating. No, but we have to commit for the benefit of our team.”

Success requires that individual members stop prioritizing their own agendas and focus on working together to support the overall team and mission.

“It's actually getting people actually work together as a team put their own egos their own agendas aside and put the mission first”

Internal divisions and infighting within a team, rather than external pressures, are the primary cause of organizational failure.

“when a platoon would fall apart it would not be because of these external factors that I just named off the bad guys the weather the sea State the equipment it wouldn't be those external factors when a platoon would fall apart destruction came from within”