Lessons From the Edge: Inspirational Tales of Surviving, Thriving and Extreme Adventure

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Not that the transition from honed killing machine to civvy life was a smooth one, a particular low point being asked to dance to the Birdie Song to see if he had the confidence for sales during one demoralising interview. In his debut book, Lessons From The Edge, Aldo will inspire readers with his jaw-dropping stories and show them how to survive and thrive through sheer strength of mind and sharp decision-making. It will reveal how this tough military man was able to cope with suddenly feeling worthless, how he overcame doors literally slamming in his face, how he came to realise that you can’t wait for things to happen and instead how he rediscovered his identity and harnessed his emotions to his advantage to find determination, purpose, and a renewed sense of belonging. And how, to use his own words, he became the captain of his own ship.

Through experience and necessity, it’s understandable Kane isn’t easily overwhelmed by situations, or prone to hyperbole. Lessons From The Edge is the story of my life up until this point,” he explains, “and all the various different expeditions I’ve been on and what I’ve learned from them now. All the things that happen in these strange environments, the lessons from that can be transferrable into everyday life. I’ve been 1,000m down to the seabed, which was utterly mind-blowing – and night diving in a shoal of millions of jellyfish. I still don’t take any of it for granted, at all.” In his book Lessons From the Edge: Inspirational Tales of Surviving, Thriving and Extreme Adventure, Aldo shared his jaw-dropping stories of how to survive and thrive through sheer strength of mind and sharp decision-making.

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He adopted the same approach when he decided to join the Reconnaissance (Recce) Troop at the age of 18. Some people thought it an audacious move at such a young age, but Kane reasoned “why wait five years to find out I’m good enough” and went onto fulfil his ambitions of becoming a sniper. But by 26 he was ready for new challenges and a different life, so left the military. Over the last seven years, Aldo has worked on well over 45 TV & Film productions, appearing on many broadcasters from the BBC, to Discovery, Nat-Geo, Channel 4, PBS, ITV, Channel 5, History Channel and many more. Aldo was recently the on-screen Expedition Leader for National Geographic’s feature-length Natural History series Welcome to Earth, hosted by Will Smith.I was out of the Marines,and now there was only one person that was going to be responsible for my success or failure When I joined, I was 16. Most other people in training were about 22 or 23 and they had all had a job before joining the Marines, but I had left school as a paperboy and joined straight up. I had to grow up fast, very fast in fact because when I just turned 18, I was on an operational tour of Northern Ireland.