Hard work is so often the answer and the question is so often irrelevant.

If you focus on the process the outcome is inevitable.

You have just spent the last 157 days to become the first swimmer to circumnavigate the whole of Great Britain.

This wasn't a physical experiment, it was mental.

You're alone with your own thoughts. Your true self will be revealed to you whether you like it or not.

I remember thinking, why are you doing this?

The wounds are open wounds just chafing the soul, your tongues falling apart, you've not been warm for 157 days, you're scraping ice off your wetsuit.

I want to be warm and just have Sunday dinner with my family. As humans we don't need a lot to be happy.

This was kind of born out of a failure, right?

I had failed to swim from St Lucia to Martinie. I didn't do what I said I was going to do.

It lit a fire under my belly. I kind of wanted that fairy tale ending and then got it.

For those people to come out at the end I felt

reverberated across the sea, the energy. I think you were feeling this overwhelming

connectivity, spirit of life.

You're feeling something so powerful that it actually has an effect on your biology.

It's just a little bit strange that I had to swim around Great Britain to almost

discover that but when you are in complete exhaustion you find the most honest

version of yourself. They say that the human race is doomed, that we have lost touch with our true nature, that the media has corrupted

us and that the planet has no future. I disagree. I believe that humanity is full of hope and that our

salvation lies within each one of us.

My name is Brian Rose and my job is to listen,

the oldest method of learning known to man.

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