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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.

Bear Grylls

My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren’t able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.
BEAR GRYLLS

Adventure People Teamwork
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Cynical Hey Kids
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Adventure Cutting People
Juice Plus+ is great stuff that I have used through all of my expeditions. What I like about it is that the research behind it is so strong.
BEAR GRYLLS

Key Recovery Research Strong
The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
BEAR GRYLLS

Appeals Awareness Come Up
As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy – nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
BEAR GRYLLS

Healthy Meat Trying
The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I’d love to do.
BEAR GRYLLS

Love Needs Scratches Truth
I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
BEAR GRYLLS

Intuition Night Quiet Voice
Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
BEAR GRYLLS

Give Up Heart Survival
I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
BEAR GRYLLS

Army Soldier Years
Accidents on big mountains happen when people’s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
BEAR GRYLLS

Ambition Heart Pride
I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
BEAR GRYLLS

Grow Survival
Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you’re gay or not it’s irrelevant, Scouting values respect.
BEAR GRYLLS

Gay Progressive Should
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Education Lesson Life Motivational
And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
BEAR GRYLLS

Christian Heart Jesus
One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
BEAR GRYLLS

Brave Fear One Sure Thing

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