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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.

Bear Grylls

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.
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Ambition Heart Pride
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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Age Special Wanted Young
I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
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Name Opportunity Past
The lesson is, the rewards in life don’t always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.
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Hell Lessons Life Rewards
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
It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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Children Father Heart
Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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Changing Life Use Way Your
You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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Disaster Expectations Recipes
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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Exercise Tree Vines
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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Emotion Fearless Stay Strong
Life’s full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn’t matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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Dream Fighting Thinking
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
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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Energy Home Survival
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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Priority Survival Weather
Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
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Clever Hard Strong Work
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

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