Without risk, there can be no growth.
BEAR GRYLLSTo me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you’re there. And you can have that anywhere.
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I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.
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I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!
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Survival is not about being fearless. It’s about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
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To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you’re there. And you can have that anywhere.
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Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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Textbook survival says stay still, don’t take any chances, wait for rescue. That’s a boring TV show. My thing was always, “Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!”
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I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
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If you risk nothing you gain nothing
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It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.
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One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
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My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I’ve learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn’t need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
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Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.
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I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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