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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I’ve been doing that from a very young age.

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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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Kids Natural Religious
Americans are cool, if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They’ll pat you on the arm and say, ‘Hey kid, you’re all right’. Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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Cynical Hey Kids
Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You’re vulnerable if you’re on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you’re not injured, face ’em off, be authoritarian with it, and look ’em in the eye.
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Eye High Injured Looks
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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Dream Fire Light
I don’t like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
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Cards Good Luck Rare Occasion
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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Dream Fire Men
I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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Intuition Night Quiet Voice
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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Dangerous Desert Mountain
I love home cooking, and I’m not a great one for fast food.
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Cooking Fast Food Home
I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you’re stuck in the middle of nowhere.
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Clothes Fire Thinking
Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you’re gay or not it’s irrelevant, Scouting values respect.
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Gay Progressive Should
My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I’ve learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn’t need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
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Important Men Years
Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you’re going to die. They’re all super important.
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Fire Important Water
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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Ends Feelings Planet
It can be hard to explain. But I also relate to the quote that says, Iif you have to ask, you will never understand.
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Ask Explain Quote Relate Understand
What I’ve learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life?
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Journey Motivational Unique
The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
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Arena Desert Survival
Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, icy faces – all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top.
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Men People Risk
There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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Climbing Heart Running
I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
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Bears Names Week
You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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Disaster Expectations Recipes
Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
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Anchors Harbors May
Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it’s done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
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Done Jobs Procrastination
Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
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Blessing Exciting Seeing
When I’m in ‘Man vs. Wild’ mode, it’s not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I’m on reserve power all the time and I’m digging deep – and that’s the magic of it as well, and that’s raw and it’s great.
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Digging Magic Men
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
I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I’ve never aspired to be a TV man.
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Men Survivor Three

I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I’ve been doing that from a very young age.

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