When Perpich is saying “You are your most valuable asset” and you are all you got I think he is trying to say to Brian that to get a move on not just sit there waiting for something to happen. He is saying get going start surviving. Get motivated and go. Then later in that day he got moving, remembering Perpich. He said to himself I am all l’ve got. I have to do something. Perpich would tell him to stop messing around. Get motivated. Perpich was also telling him you are the most valuable thing you’ve got right now. Perpich was a motivating guy and that’s what Brian thought when he was out in the woods alone. He thought about his motivation and how it would help him, and it did. He got motivated and got up and did something.