Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you’re gay or not it’s irrelevant, Scouting values respect.
BEAR GRYLLSI 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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Christianity is not about religion. It’s about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It’s about finding joy and finding home.
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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.
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How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
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Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
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For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
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I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
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I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you’re stuck in the middle of nowhere.
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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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Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.
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Don’t be scared to dream big, and don’t be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It’s the tenacious not the talented that win.
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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.
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The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
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There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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