“You’re the only person that wants you to win,” he explained. “So, go into this knowing that you can work with people, but at the end of the day, they don’t want you to win. They want them to win. Trust as far as you can, but don’t trust anymore.”

“Number three is, do your very best, forget the rest,” he added. “Control what you can control, but when you have a tribe swap and stuff that you can’t help, let it go. There’s nothing you can do about it.”

So, what was Jonathan’s strategy this time?

“We got people who were On Fire with Jeff Probst, we have winners, we have people who’ve played five times,” he explained. “I’m just a little Jonathan from Gulf Shores, Alabama. So, I used that to my advantage. That was part of my strategy.”