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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.

Bear Grylls

One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
BEAR GRYLLS

Brave Fear One Sure Thing
The greatest journeys all start with a single step.
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Journey Single Steps
I’ve fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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Broken Cameras Snakes
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 was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
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Bears Names Week
A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.
BEAR GRYLLS

Overcoming Quality Self
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Eyebrows Hands Prayer
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!
BEAR GRYLLS

Cards Good Luck Rare Occasion
I’m probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you’ve ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
BEAR GRYLLS

Chiefs Policy Safety
Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
BEAR GRYLLS

Give Up Heart Survival
I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
BEAR GRYLLS

Emotion Fearless Stay Strong
I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
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Careers Climber Soldier
Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
BEAR GRYLLS

Luck Matter Trying
Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You’re vulnerable if you’re on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you’re not injured, face ’em off, be authoritarian with it, and look ’em in the eye.
BEAR GRYLLS

Eye High Injured Looks
I’m terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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Down People Sitting Sweat
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Empowering Kids Risk

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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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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