I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
BEAR GRYLLSAs a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
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When I’m filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you’ve got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I’m not like that when I’m back home.
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I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, “I watch your show, I’m not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it’s about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times.”
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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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It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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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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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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That feeling when you’re so cold you’d give anything to be warm – I’ve had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
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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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I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.
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I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
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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 love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!
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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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