From Les Stroud on Survivorman, season 2, episode 5:
Long term survival has always been about maintaining the will to live. No one wants to find themselves in a survival situation. You just want to go home. But sometimes the ordeal becomes long-term survival -- longer than seven days. And whether in a life raft, on a mountain, in a desert, or on a tropical island, long-term survival has always been about maintaining the will to live. And then becoming familiar with the surroundings, especially the natural cycles of the plants and animals, even the weather, and then learning how to use these cycles to effect better survival -- when the fish are coming in, when the plants are ripe, when the weather is most threatening -- all information the lost victim needs to assess what to do next, what to do to survive.The emphasized part of the quote also speaks well to adapting to a new surrounding. While for most people, moving to a new place is nowhere as drastic as being stranded on a South Pacific island infested with rats, it is important to keep positive while slowly becoming familiar with the new place. Once a routine is establish to find food - where to buy, what to buy, and how often to buy - and to live - where to have coffee and where to relax - the new place slowly becomes hom.