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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

I think it’s fun running with dogs. They’re always so fit and fast.
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Dog Fun Running
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
My favorite moments? Where it’s all going swimmingly, the sun’s out and I’ve got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
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Fire Nice Snakes
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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Appeals Awareness Come Up
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
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Climbing Confidence Self Special
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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Dangerous Desert Mountain
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 look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
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Know Looks World
Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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Absence Brave Way
In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Air Running Special
Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
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Luck Moments Plans
“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 can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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Disaster Expectations Recipes
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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Eyebrows Hands Prayer
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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Christianity Home Joy
I 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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Army Soldier Years

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

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