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Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable,’ but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

Bear Grylls

The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I’d love to do.
BEAR GRYLLS

Love Needs Scratches Truth
I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, “I watch your show, I’m not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it’s about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times.”
BEAR GRYLLS

Attitude Job Running
Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
BEAR GRYLLS

Attitude Great Two
That feeling when you’re so cold you’d give anything to be warm – I’ve had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
BEAR GRYLLS

Flames Giving Ice
There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
BEAR GRYLLS

Coming Danger Feelings Home
I don’t like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
BEAR GRYLLS

Cards Good Luck Rare Occasion
Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
BEAR GRYLLS

Luck Matter Trying
The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
BEAR GRYLLS

Appeals Awareness Come Up
Juice Plus+ is great stuff that I have used through all of my expeditions. What I like about it is that the research behind it is so strong.
BEAR GRYLLS

Key Recovery Research Strong
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
BEAR GRYLLS

Priority Survival Weather
I’ve eaten sheep’s eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.
BEAR GRYLLS

Eye Sheep Zebras
The hardest thing about my job isn’t the snake bites or the crocodiles, it’s being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.
BEAR GRYLLS

Children Job Religious
You can’t become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There’s life in a nutshell.
BEAR GRYLLS

Fall Get Numbers Up
Life’s full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn’t matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
BEAR GRYLLS

Dream Fighting Thinking
And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It’s the law of the universe.
BEAR GRYLLS

Giving Heart Law
Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
BEAR GRYLLS

Dream Fire Men

Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable,’ but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

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Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable,’ but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

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