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I’ve eaten sheep’s eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.

Bear Grylls

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.
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Army Soldier Years
As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
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Grows Risk Society Terrified
All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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Bigs Climbing Throwing
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
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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Death Determined Life Lines
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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Couple Running Swimming
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
Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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Absence Brave Way
Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
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Little Time Littles Quiet
I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
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Know Looks World
Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
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Blessing Exciting Seeing
You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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Disaster Expectations Recipes
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
What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities
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Adventure Children Opportunity
I didn’t want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.
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Eight Fire Fun
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

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