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The writing style is casual and I loved it. The book was super engaging and I was hooked and I finished it in around a day. It's quite awesome and motivating to read about how after suffering from spinal injury due to a failed parachute landing and having to leave the SAS, what he does is literally climb the highest mountain

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I've "met" Grylls throughout my children. They love watching Man vs. Nature and I had the pleasure to see some scenes. I am not a fan, by surely my kids are. It's tremendously thrilling. His training and the SAS selection was exciting, since it's often considered so secretive. (He didn't reveal anything he shouldn't, and left out the details I had so looked forward to read. But he had to run it by the SAS for approval, and it couldn't involve anything confidential.) What a horrifying experience, people have died of plain exhaustion, trying to get in! Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way - hence we shouldn't ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give - that's a much better benchmark.” Bear Grylls is the obvious main and favourite character as it is an autobiography but my favourite setting was when he came here to New Zealand and tried to eat a Weta. He claimed that the Weta was one of the only things he couldn't eat from the wild because it was too big and tough to eat. As a young kid, I had always found that a faith in God was so natural. It was a simple comfort to me: unquestioning and personal.The precious, natural, instinctive faith I had known when I was younger was tossed out with this newly found delusion that because I was growing up, it was time to ‘believe’ like a grown-up. 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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E.g. Bears mentioned he hurt his elbow on the way up to the Mt Everest summit but never mentions how that affected him onward. We only hear again and again that it was... hard. I feel he could have shared a million interesting details, vividly illustrating the experiences. This way, everything felt kind of 'flat'. Also his random accounts of mishaps with his friends left me wondering about times, places and people involved. The shortness of chapters and jumping from topic to topic made a somewhat scrambled impression. Maybe intentionally, but I think it was just editor not doing his/her job. But I also knew if I could somehow replace my doubt with hope, my fear with courage, and my self-pity with a sense of pride, then I just might be able to do this.”

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Ed Amies, one of my oldest and closest friends, told me simply that: ‘So often, God’s callings have a birth, a death and then a resurrection.’” Ultimately, if I had to pass on one message to my children it would be this: ‘fortune favours the brave’.” The other thing the army had taught me was how, and when, to go that extra mile. And the time to do it is when it is tough – when all around you are slowing and quitting and complaining.”

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I liked how little the TV show was mentioned. Even though I like the show, I've seen most of the episodes; all the content in the book was new to me.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? I remain loyal, though, to the belief, that those brave men and women who died during those months on Everest are the true heroes. They paid the ultimate sacrifice in pursuit of their dreams. This must be their families' only relief."

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There are chapter links at the start, index with keywords at the end, followed by a few nice photographs. And I learned a lot UK 'slang' words, or at least words I'd never heard of before. On returning home, he embarked upon the notoriously gruelling selection course for the British Special Forces to join 21 SAS - a journey that was to push him to the very limits of physical and mental endurance. I stopped reading this book (at 64%) for days because I had enough of Bear’s bragging and his “tough guy nonsense”, as he called it himself. Oh, he doesn’t boast about all his own great qualities, not directly. He doesn’t say: "I am strong, enduring and tenacious". No, but he says by speaking about those who make what he is doing: "It takes strong, tough and resilient men to go through it". But since he is one of them and he went through it all, doesn’t it mean that he believes that he has the same qualities? Thus, I was fed up with it and I decided to take a break. Jen Charney (26 April 2012). "Book review: "Mud, Sweat, and Tears," by Bear Grylls". The Washington Post . Retrieved 29 April 2018.I chose to read this book because I am a big fan of Bear Grylls's show Man vs Wild and I thought it would be very interesting to read this book. It fills in the 'autobiography' box on the bingo board. Bear Grylls, the famous adventurer, will never cease to impress. My expectations, which were very high, were fulfilled and exceeded far beyond any limit. Bear Grylls Memoir: How He Coped With Bullying". Huffington Post. 2 May 2012 . Retrieved 29 April 2018. Eton showed Bear the value of a few close friends, and how those friendships really matter as we walk through our days. It also taught him to understand that life is what you make of it. And with that, there comes responsibility.”



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