E155: Bear Grylls: Man VS Failure, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Bear Grylls is a British adventurer and television host who has been an international sensation of survival shows for twenty years. The host of Man vs. Wild, You vs. Wild, Running Wild, The Island, and the author of Mud, Sweat and Tears and over twenty other books, he’s come in to talk to us about his new book - Never Give Up.

Bear has always told himself a story about himself that he’s ‘resilient’, he’s pushed through the toughest challenges the world has to offer - from climbing Everest to surviving in the desert - because he’s told himself he’s the type of person who survives. But now, he reflects to us about the costs of that mentality, and where it leaves you when you come up short.

Bear’s new book is a follow-up to his smash-hit bestseller Mud, Sweat and Tears. He’s spent five years writing it, written every single word himself, and shares some lessons from his life he’s never felt comfortable sharing before. It was a pleasure to read, and a pleasure to speak to him in my kitchen.

Topics:

Confidence
Imposter syndrome
Resilience
When to quit
Are we always chasing a bigger challenge?
Finding your faith
Climbing Everest was humbling
Struggling with fame
Anxiety
What were your darkest moments?
What would you say to your father if he was alive?
The importance of relationships
Is your career complete?
Your latest and most special book: What did it teach you?
Our last guest's question

Bear:

https://twitter.com/BearGrylls

https://www.instagram.com/beargrylls/?hl=en

Bear’s book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Never-Give-extraordinary-autobiography-phenomenon/dp/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Just because your determined doesn't mean everything's going to go well.
0:04.0	Those four people that passed away, were they climbing with you?
0:08.0	I'm Bear Grills and I've learnt how to survive in some of the most hostile terrains on the planet.
0:13.0	You really fascinate me for a number of reasons that I actually never knew before I started digging into your story.
0:18.0	You certainly had a lot of demons.
0:21.0	In the early days of TV especially there was so much pressure to go and do that and do the extra episode.
0:26.0	You end up burning the things that are most valuable to be successfully after sacrifice.
0:31.0	But maybe you reach the point where there's nothing else.
0:36.0	Selection for the Special Forces is all about heart and spirit and we can all have that.
0:41.0	That's not a god-given talent. That's a muscle of builds with walking through the door of failure time and time again and keep getting back up.
0:49.0	When was your darkest moment?
0:51.0	One was when I brought my back and it aimed at me in rehabilitation for a long time and you know so much of my rock in my life
0:58.0	It was being that I was visibly strong and I was doing a job I loved and suddenly I couldn't even reach a bath and without screw-shading agony
1:05.0	It was just one of my going to do with my life.
1:07.0	When is there a time to give up?
1:11.0	So without further ado, I'm Stephen Bartlett and this is the Dario Vaseo.
1:16.0	I hope nobody's listening but if you are, then please keep this yourself.
1:28.0	I want to start where I usually start which is near the start and one of the things you said was you certainly had a lot of demons.
1:35.0	The exact quote is I was never short of demons.
1:38.0	When I read that, I thought what do you mean?
1:43.0	Growing up I really struggled with confidence.
1:47.0	Definitely when I was at school and I think so much of the school culture still to this day.
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