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Without risk, there can be no growth.

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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
Growth
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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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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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I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so...anoraky.
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The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra.
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I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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I didn't want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.
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Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.
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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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Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
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I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!
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Eating any of these things, goat testicles or what have you, isn't going to be nice, but you get into that zone, you become focussed and you do what you need to do. It's all about one thing: coming home in one piece.
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