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Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.

Bear Grylls

It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Conflict Jobs Lovely
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
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
Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
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Luck Moments Plans
I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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Fall Military Months
My Christian faith is my backbone
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Backbone Christian Faith
I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, “I watch your show, I’m not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it’s about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times.”
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Attitude Job Running
As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
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Grows Risk Society Terrified
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
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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Enough Nobody Straight Stupid
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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Baptist Growing Robins Up
Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
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Achievement Belief Ourselves
Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
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Attitude Great Two
I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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Ends Feelings Planet
The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me…
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Differences Give Up Ordinary
I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.
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Eyebrows Hands Prayer

Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.

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Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.

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