![]() If I forget to use my instinct, I spend my time questioning myself and second guessing. The insecurities come up, and they speak louder than my boldness, concept and idea. I am being a bit facetious here when I say, like a classic Libra, it would be my second guessing. Survivorman Les Stroud answered your questions But that does not mean that I would not have done well when I had the opportunity, and I blew it. I became Survivorman and I achieved some wonderful success as a documentary filmmaker. Or I might have had a wonderful, amazing life as a singer-songwriter and never gotten addicted and enjoyed my career as a musician. I was offered an opportunity to write music for the likes of Bruce Springsteen. You might have ended up as a drug-addicted musician somewhere and got lost in that." My greatest regret happened when I was about 24. And if you've done that, who knows what would have happened. When you tell people what your greatest regret was, often they'll say, "Oh, but look how far you've come. I can blame it on a lot of things - I can say I had no mentorship, no guidance, no understanding, no maturity - but I blew it. The head of a music label in Canada was wooing me, saying, "We want your music, we love your stuff." My greatest regret happened when I was about 24. But the journeys of love and the soul and the mind require a larger existential perspective.ĭuration 24:27 George interviews musician, filmmaker, and survival expert Les Stroud. It's because a lot of other journeys require logistics, nothing more. ![]() The knee-jerk answer that came right into the front of my brain, is the journey of the soul, I suppose. ![]() I've seen it all - and it all sends me back to Canada, every time. I do, in the clichéd sense of the phrase, consider myself a global citizen. What set me on the path to become Survivorman was loving Tarzan. But in the end, you can't convince me that there's anything more beautiful than Muskoka, Ont., in late September and early October during the fall. Or even the dead of winter in northern Canada, blanketed in snow, or in a canoe on a lake in the summertime. I've seen some of the most beautiful places on the planet. If you really think about it, if those two characters had a baby, it would be Survivorman. On the nonfiction side, I loved Jacques Cousteau. I'm a reader of nonfiction, but I'm a lover of fiction characters. I grew up loving Tarzan. Tell me about your favourite character in fiction.
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