Bear Grylls: Building Resilience, My Scariest Moments & Quitting Man vs Wild (E325)

Before we get started, let me tell you you can now listen to High Performance Add Free. Start your free trial now on Apple, Spotify, or head to our website so you can listen to our episodes uninterrupted. My life is not like the TV show, you know, where all the bad bits of the tripovers are cut out. You know, crew would come in and they go, This is epic, but you're gonna be dead in two years' time. You've also gotta be resilient enough to hang around and still be in the fight when the luck comes. Said thank you to him. You know, like Just thank you. Just get used to the fact that fear is gonna knock on your door. It is all about how you respond to it.

That's the well-known voice of legendary adventurer Bear Grills, a man who's faced life or death situations in the most extreme conditions on earth. But this conversation with me, Jake Comfrey, and our high performance expert, Damien Hughes. moves away from the stuff that Bear normally talks about and much more towards his personal regrets. The industry challenges he's faced. And

What his future looks like. I've never heard him talk like this, Damien. No, I mean his take on faith and religion has been well documented, but what he shared with us was really revealing. And also what he told us about how long he thinks he's gonna live for. Mate, my honestly, my jaws on the floor at that point. I must I must have told twenty people what he said about longevity. So stay listening for that. And also stay listening for a cameo from the

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