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I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.

Bear Grylls

People ask me, “How do I succeed?” Whatever it is they do, I say, “Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you’ll be getting there.” Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.
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Adventure Cutting People
Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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Luck Matter Trying
The greatest journeys all start with a single step.
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Journey Single Steps
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
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
It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Conflict Jobs Lovely
How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
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Speak
Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
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Achievement Belief Ourselves
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 try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
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Healthy Home Snakes
All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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Bigs Climbing Throwing
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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Priority Survival Weather
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
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
Textbook survival says stay still, don’t take any chances, wait for rescue. That’s a boring TV show. My thing was always, “Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!”
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Rocks Shows Squirrels TV
What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities
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Adventure Children Opportunity

I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.

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