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I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

Bear Grylls

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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Exercise Tree Vines
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
Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe’s way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.
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Dawn Giving Lines Up
I love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!
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Art Healthy Love Making
For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
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Key Moving Training
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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Dangerous Desert Mountain
It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Conflict Jobs Lovely
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
Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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Absence Brave Way
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
People ask me, “How do I succeed?” Whatever it is they do, I say, “Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you’ll be getting there.” Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.
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Adventure Cutting People
The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
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Differences Triumph Trying
Accidents on big mountains happen when people’s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
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Ambition Heart Pride
You don’t need to go to the ends of the earth, you don’t need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it’s invariably on our doorstep.
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Adventure Earth Needs
Without risk, there can be no growth.
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Growth Happen Risk
I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
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Know Looks World

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

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I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

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