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The world's favorite adventurer Bear Grylls offers daily advice to help you build mental resilience.
Bear Grylls draws on his survival experience to share a range of tips that he has used to overcome his fears, achieve superhuman feats and break through the boundaries that limit success in everyday life. In this refreshing and authentic new book, Bear Grylls, along with the expertise of Will van der Hart, helps readers combat stress, choose new habits, live courageously and overcome limiting beliefs.
From the bestselling author of Mud, Sweat and Tears, MIND FUEL gives you a whole year's worth of guidance and advice to face whatever life throws at you.
About the Author
A former Special Forces soldier and Everest mountaineer, Bear Grylls starred in Discovery's hit TV series Man vs. Wild for seven seasons, before hosting the National Geographic Channel series, Running Wild with Bear Grylls. This show has seen him take global stars such as Julia Roberts, Ben Stiller and even President Obama on adventures into the wild.
Bear has also hosted over six seasons of the BAFTA award-winning series, The Island with Bear Grylls, Hostile Planet for National Geographic, Eco Challenge for Amazon and ‘You Vs Wild’ for Netflix.
Bear is a dedicated family man to his wife and three sons, and they live on a barge in London and a remote island off the UK.
Rev Will van der Hart is an experienced life coach and emotional health expert who speaks at a number of national forums. Will suffered from complex PTSD and anxiety after exposure to the London Bombings terrorist incident in 2005. He is a mental health first aider and is passionate about equipping leaders to look after their own emotional health as well as empowering them to manage the wellbeing of those in their care. Will is the author of a number of successful books on emotional health and co-directs an international charity focusing on mental health and Christian faith: www.mindandsoulfoundation.org He has been friends with Bear for more than a decade and Bear has written endorsements into all of Will’s books to date.
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