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“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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Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable,’ but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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Adventure Thinking Travel
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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Energy Home Survival
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
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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Happy Inspire Muscle Question Really Stuff
Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you’re going to die. They’re all super important.
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Fire Important Water
Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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Give Up Heart Survival
Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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Changing Life Use Way Your
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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Decision Fearless Kids
I think viewers quite like it when I’m suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.
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Drinking Suffering Thinking
I’m terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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Down People Sitting Sweat
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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Boys Life Modern Young
You can’t become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There’s life in a nutshell.
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Fall Get Numbers Up
Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
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Achievement Belief Ourselves
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
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
I’m probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you’ve ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
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Chiefs Policy Safety

“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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“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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