The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
BEAR GRYLLSI was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn’t really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn’t a TV person.
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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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Exercise helps my back. If I don’t exercise, that’s when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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I’m terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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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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Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.
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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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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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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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Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
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It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn’t religious.
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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.
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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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