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I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.

Bear Grylls

I’ve seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it’s all gone wrong. That’s when we define ourselves.
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Bravery Gone People
To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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Couple Running Swimming
I love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!
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Art Healthy Love Making
It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Conflict Jobs Lovely
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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Clothes Fire Thinking
And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
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Christian Heart Jesus
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
Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?
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Ego Enough Strong
Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
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Dream Real Tasks
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
Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
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Dream Fire Men
But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.
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Expecting Happen Stuff Unpredictable
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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Dream Give Up Winning
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.
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Overcoming Quality Self
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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Emotion Fearless Stay Strong
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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Dangerous Desert Mountain

I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.

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