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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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Bear Grylls
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: June 7
Adventurer
Explorer
Motivational Speaker
Mountaineer
Television Presenter
Writer
London
England
Edward Michael Grylls
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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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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It's the law of the universe.
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The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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My best life lessons and education didn't come from a classroom - they've come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.
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A wise man knows learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
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Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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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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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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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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I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
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Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.
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One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
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I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
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I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.
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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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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.
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