All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
BEAR GRYLLSThe hardest thing about my job isn’t the snake bites or the crocodiles, it’s being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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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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You don’t need to go to the ends of the earth, you don’t need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it’s invariably on our doorstep.
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I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk – not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
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That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn’t about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it’s about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.
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Survival is not about being fearless. It’s about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
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I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
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My Christian faith is my backbone
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To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you’re there. And you can have that anywhere.
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There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
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Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it’s done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
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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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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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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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