Bear Grylls

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.