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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.

Bear Grylls

My best life lessons and education didn’t come from a classroom – they’ve come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.
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Education Lesson Life Motivational
Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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Changing Life Use Way Your
A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
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Classic Men Wise
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
One killer exercise that’s really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That’s my favourite. It’s such functional core strength, and that’s why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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Exercise Tree Vines
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
I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
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Climb Dad Thinking
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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Boys Life Modern Young
If you risk nothing you gain nothing
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Gains Nothing Risk
When I take kids into the woods, I tell them, “What we’re going to do today is going to be incredibly dangerous.” And you just see 20 smiles go up.
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Empowering Kids Risk
Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
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Dream Real Tasks
I’m probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you’ve ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
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Chiefs Policy Safety
The greatest journeys all start with a single step.
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Journey Single Steps
I 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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Mountain Three Tvs
Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
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Attitude Great Two
Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.
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Inspire People Reckless

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