I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
BEAR GRYLLSI learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
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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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There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.
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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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Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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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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I think viewers quite like it when I’m suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.
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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.
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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.
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Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
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I’ve seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it’s all gone wrong. That’s when we define ourselves.
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The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
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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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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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