I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
BEAR GRYLLSMy faith isn’t very churchy, it’s a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
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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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I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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Juice Plus+ is great stuff that I have used through all of my expeditions. What I like about it is that the research behind it is so strong.
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It’s about doing whatever it takes – and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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When I’m filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you’ve got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I’m not like that when I’m back home.
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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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It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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Eating any of these things, goat testicles or what have you, isn’t going to be nice, but you get into that zone, you become focussed and you do what you need to do. It’s all about one thing: coming home in one piece.
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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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The lesson is, the rewards in life don’t always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.
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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.
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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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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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Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you’re gay or not it’s irrelevant, Scouting values respect.
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