Fox News Channel correspondent, Benjamin Hall, lost half a leg, most of one foot, part of one hand and the view of an eye in a Russian missile attack that covers the war in Ukraine.
But speaking with the publication about his new book, “Resolute: how humans continue to find ways to overcome the most difficult probabilities,” he reveals, “it is possible to discover that physical injury” were “the easy to understand and obtain.”
Going home and learning to live a new life was more difficult.
“There are several things I could not do. The ways in which people interact with you are different,” he says, “and that was when I began to learn who new.”
Hall was the only survivor of an explosion in March 2022 on the outskirts of kyiv while he, cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian translator Sasha Kuvshinova moved away after interviewing the soldiers. His best selling book 2023 “Saved: A War Reporter’s Mission to Hach It Home” detailed his heartbreaking trip out of Ucrine and exhausting recovery.
“Resolute”, which entered the list of the New York Times in number 4, goes beyond the doctor and physical.
“This book is the result of the hardest journalistic mission I have undertaken: an Inquisition about why I’m still alive,” says Hall. “It turned out that the most difficult part of my recovery was when I resent the real world.”
It is “an examination not only of my own recovery but of the other people I speak with,” he tells The Post. “What cools the ability to stand up and overcome anything?
He found, writes, “the feature that most shapes the destinations of people and nations and movements, more critical just than courage and cunning and all other human features, is the ability to resist and recover from adversity. Or, in a word, resistance.”
It was proposed to learn more about what human resilience and the inspiring book of the type with “post -traumatic optimism” teach how to improve to unlock their power, regardless of which situation in front.
A “key part of the book is that can It grows through the fight, “he says. You know how to overcome it. And” post -traumatic growth “and” post -traumatic optimism “is that.”
Few people have faced only the challenges that Hall has (and continues). But his book is written for anyone who is going through any type of difficulty at some point in life; In other words, we are all the target audience.
“It is fascinating what you just said about resilience, and how people say you are the resistant and optimistic reality, but you don’t always feel like that,” he says. “Resilience is not the ability to overcome something well all the time and happy and optimistic all the time. Resilience is knowing that it doesn’t matter how difficult it will be, it will reach the other objectives, that is if you get your work.”
And illustrates that with their own experiences, some of which are easy to visit again.
“I write about the difficult moments, and I write about the painful moments, and I write about the moments that was so low”, equally “brutal” moments, “but I always knew that I would overcome it. There will be something good on the other side.
Hall continues to make adjustments, both large and small, all with the sense of humor that also believes that it is essential to survive and prosper.
“I was at a dinner about six months ago,” I know relationships, and the opposite person had run out of wine. “I went to pour, and I totally missed the glass.
In fact, his social life has seen a significant change. His first biggest meeting with friends after recovery led to the painful discovery that he could no longer follow the rhythm of the return and background jokes that used to taste.
“I have a couple of friends really close to those we see, and mostly they are war correspondents. We usually end up talking about quite serious things. I really don’t have that cheerful, just coming out and joke.” “Maybe my approach is in more important places, and maybe I’m talking about more real things.”
He has also affected his work.
“The way my thoughts come do not work in the same way. There are times when I really find that really aligning several much more difficult facts than I would have done before. There are times when I sometimes have blank spaces, but that’s fine. That’s the new self. Those are things I can do,” he says.
It still seems to easily give intelligent answers to the questions about, for example, Ukraine and Russia, and the future in the middle of a second Trump administration.
“I hope that they can reach a child from a fire and then to a peace agreement. And look, it certainly has not gone in the way the Ukrainians expected it to be. But until we see the final product, there is only something there there will be there there will be there there will be there that we will have to have to be something there.
“I just have to be optimistic at this time,” he adds. “They even talk to some of the people in the Ukrainian government, they say, if we understand the way President Trump works, sometimes what might seem real in the beginning ends up being something quite pure on the eve.”
Hall and his wife, Alicia, decided “very early” who do not point to “return to the old life we used to have.”
“It’s about adapting. And I think it’s a key lesson. When you’re going through something difficult, be willing to adapt, change the way you do things and then hug that. Instead of feeling sad or regretting what you can no longer do, accept and enjoy the things you can do.”
He is making more special in Fox. He could only his hand in fiction.
And the family has embraced a new member: Hall’s fourth daughter, Sage, was born in September. He calls her a “miraculous baby.”
“There is a life and a baby person alive today just because I managed to survive,” he says. “And for something so dark and so sad, there is this new life. And what is so amazing to hold and only to celebrate.”
“I no longer see any obstacles as challenges. I think of them as opportunities,” he adds. “If I see something that is difficult, boy, can I feel even more to find a path through it? And that is what I want to teach my children.”
