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Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

Bear Grylls

I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn’t really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn’t a TV person.
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Mountain Three Tvs
How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
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Speak
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
What I’ve learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life?
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Journey Motivational Unique
Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You’re vulnerable if you’re on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you’re not injured, face ’em off, be authoritarian with it, and look ’em in the eye.
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Eye High Injured Looks
I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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Emotion Fearless Stay Strong
To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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Couple Running Swimming
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
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
A man’s pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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Men Pride Support
I’ve seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it’s all gone wrong. That’s when we define ourselves.
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Bravery Gone People
Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
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Dream Real Tasks
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 was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
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Bears Names Week
It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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Comfort Grows Steps
The greatest journeys all start with a single step.
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Journey Single Steps

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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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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