Bear Grylls Quote
Pretty soon after returning from Everest, I was asked to give a lecture on the Everest expedition to my local sailing club in the Isle of Wight.It would be the first of many lectures that I would eventually give, and would soon become my main source of income after returning from the mountain.Those early talks were pretty ropey, though, by anyone’s standards.That first one went okay, mainly due to the heavy number of family members in the audience. Dad cried, Mum cried, Lara cried. Everyone was proud and happy.The next talk was to a group of soldiers on a course with the SAS. I took one of my old buddies along with me for moral support. Huge Mackenzie-Smith always jokes to this day how, by the time I finished, the entire room had fallen asleep. (They had been up all night on an exercise, I hasten to add--but still--it wasn’t my finest hour.)We had to wake them--one by one.I had a lot to learn about communicating a story if I was to earn any sort of a living by giving talks.
Pretty soon after returning from Everest, I was asked to give a lecture on the Everest expedition to my local sailing club in the Isle of Wight.It would be the first of many lectures that I would eventually give, and would soon become my main source of income after returning from the mountain.Those early talks were pretty ropey, though, by anyone’s standards.That first one went okay, mainly due to the heavy number of family members in the audience. Dad cried, Mum cried, Lara cried. Everyone was proud and happy.The next talk was to a group of soldiers on a course with the SAS. I took one of my old buddies along with me for moral support. Huge Mackenzie-Smith always jokes to this day how, by the time I finished, the entire room had fallen asleep. (They had been up all night on an exercise, I hasten to add--but still--it wasn’t my finest hour.)We had to wake them--one by one.I had a lot to learn about communicating a story if I was to earn any sort of a living by giving talks.
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