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🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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When was the last time you impressed yourself by doing something you didn’t think you could? Bear Grylls reckons putting ourselves in slightly uncomfortable situations is where we grow.
In this chat with Fearne, Bear explains why those who take on epic adventures or challenges have to be really good at being mindful and living in the present, and what lessons about mental resilience we can all learn there. They also talk about why being negative and being optimistic are both just habits, so positivity is a skill we can learn.
Bear’s book, Mind Fuel, is out now.
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0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place, the show that aims to help you overcome your |
0:07.0 | limiting beliefs about your capabilities. Today I'm chatting to Bear Grills. |
0:12.6 | I just know tradition is huge, it's how we're at our best, we're best in the struggle. |
0:17.6 | And when we stop pushing ourselves and we stop taking the risk and we stop doing the |
0:21.9 | uncomfortable, we stagnate and like in nature nothing stands still, it's either going |
0:27.5 | backwards or going forwards. And I think so much of people's anxieties about change and |
0:32.3 | new thing. I never forget the words written over it's written on the barracks of the |
0:36.5 | Commando Training Centre at Limston, written there on the officers' message going, |
0:40.8 | come toward uncertainty. A former Special Forces soldier, Bear, has for years and years and years |
0:47.5 | been an incredibly well-loved face on our TV screens as the man who's taken everyone |
0:53.5 | from Julia Roberts to President Obama out into the wild for a survival adventure. And yes, |
0:59.9 | there's obviously a huge amount of physical ability involved in that, but it's mental resilience |
1:06.1 | in the face of life's challenges that Bear's particularly interested in. He's written a book called |
1:12.0 | Mindfuel and I just love the principles he talks about in it. Pushing yourself into slight |
1:18.4 | discomfort, challenging yourself in new scenarios, that's where we're going to grow, that's |
1:24.4 | where we're going to impress ourselves with things we didn't know we could do. That's |
1:30.1 | where we'll all discover new parts of ourselves, perhaps even exciting parts that deviate from |
1:36.5 | the story we've always told about who we are. |
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