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I’M CHIEF SCOUT... BUT I WASN’T MUCH GOOD!

One of my proudest achievements was becoming the youngest-ever Chief Scout, a position I’ve held for 12 years now [inset, in the role in 2013]. I hardly earned any badges as a kid in the Scouts, but I loved the spirit of it all. That sense of adventure and excitement. Putting on my uniform, being taught real skills for life, such as how to cook a sausage with just one match. Formative moments.

I’ll never forget sitting on the floor trying to figure out how the match was ever going to last long enough to cook the sausage. When a more experienced Scout taught me I had to use the match to light a fire, which I could then cook the sausage over, it was a lightbulb moment. Of course. How stupid could I be? I told you I wasn’t a brilliant Scout. But maybe that was the point. Our youth should be seen as our training ground, where we try, and we fail, and we learn to get back up. Our young years are where we build our resilience and thirst for life.

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