Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.
BEAR GRYLLSYou can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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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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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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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
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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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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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You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
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It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I’ve never aspired to be a TV man.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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You’re not human if you don’t feel fear. But I’ve learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It’s there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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One killer exercise that’s really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That’s my favourite. It’s such functional core strength, and that’s why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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