As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
BEAR GRYLLSOur 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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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
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I try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
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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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Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.
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Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly
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To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
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There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.
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You don’t need to go to the ends of the earth, you don’t need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it’s invariably on our doorstep.
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Sometimes it’s hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn’t just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
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A man’s pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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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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I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I’ve never aspired to be a TV man.
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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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