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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

Bear Grylls

Accidents on big mountains happen when people’s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
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Ambition Heart Pride
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.”
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Attitude Job Running
It is 100% natural, is whole food based, and I love the fact that it provides raw, anti-oxidant fruit and veg in a capsule form. For me it fulfills a key part of my nutrition, training and recovery needs.
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Capsule Fruit Nutrition Oxidant Recovery Training
Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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Changing Life Use Way Your
The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me…
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Differences Give Up Ordinary
Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.
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Inspire People Reckless
I try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
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Healthy Home Snakes
People ask me, “How do I succeed?” Whatever it is they do, I say, “Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you’ll be getting there.” Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.
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Adventure Cutting People
The lesson is, the rewards in life don’t always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.
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Hell Lessons Life Rewards
If you risk nothing you gain nothing
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Gains Nothing Risk
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
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Climbing Confidence Self Special
Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way – hence we shouldn’t ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give – that’s a much better benchmark.
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Benchmark Giving Impress Taught Way
You’re not human if you don’t feel fear. But I’ve learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It’s there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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Emotion Giving Treat
I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
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Adventure Kids Want
You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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Disaster Expectations Recipes
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.
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Fall Get Numbers Up

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