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I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.

Bear Grylls

Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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Changing Life Use Way Your
There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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Climbing Heart Running
I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
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Adventure Kids Want
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
I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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Intuition Night Quiet Voice
Life’s full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn’t matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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Dream Fighting Thinking
My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I’ve learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn’t need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
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Important Men Years
It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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Comfort Grows Steps
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
I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I’ve been doing that from a very young age.
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Age Special Wanted Young
I think it’s fun running with dogs. They’re always so fit and fast.
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Dog Fun Running
When you find yourself thinking about someone or something in the same old negative way, just stop yourself. Think. Check. Change. Refresh. Job done. Smile. Move on. Do this enough times and you will change. For the better; for the stronger.
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Jobs Moving Thinking
When I take kids into the woods, I tell them, “What we’re going to do today is going to be incredibly dangerous.” And you just see 20 smiles go up.
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Empowering Kids Risk
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
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
I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
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Name Opportunity Past

I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.

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I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.

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