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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

Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable,’ but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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Adventure Thinking Travel
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
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.
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Healthy Meat Trying
And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It’s the law of the universe.
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Giving Heart Law
Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe’s way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.
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Dawn Giving Lines Up
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
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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Enough Nobody Straight Stupid
You can’t become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There’s life in a nutshell.
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Fall Get Numbers Up
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
Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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Luck Matter Trying
The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I’d love to do.
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Love Needs Scratches Truth
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
Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don’t take any risks. But there’d been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn’t really want to do that.
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Risk Survival Waiting
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
“But, we’re also going to learn to look after each other, who to work together and who to understand and manage that risk.” That’s what it’s about, you don’t empower kids if you don’t expose them to risk.
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Empower Expose Kids Understand Work
You’re not human if you don’t feel fear. But I’ve learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It’s there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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Emotion Giving Treat

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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