Fox Information Channel correspondent Benjamin Corridor misplaced half a leg, most of a foot, a part of a hand and one eye’s sight in a Russian missile assault protecting Ukraine’s warfare.
However speaking to The Publish about his new e-book, “Resolute: How We Humans Keep Finding Ways to Beat the Toughest Odds,” he reveals, “I eventually found that the physical injuries” have been “the easiest to comprehend and get over.”
Going dwelling and studying to reside a brand new life was more durable.
“There were a number of things that I couldn’t do. The ways in which people interact with you are different,” he says, “and that’s when I started to learn who the new me was.”
Corridor was the only survivor of a March 2022 blast simply outdoors Kyiv as he, cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian translator-fixer Sasha Kuvshinova have been driving away after interviewing troopers. His bestselling 2023 e-book “Saved: A War Reporter’s Mission to Make it Home” detailed his harrowing journey out of Ukraine and grueling restoration.
“Resolute” — which entered The New York Instances Finest Sellers checklist at No. 4 — goes past the medical and bodily.
“This book is a result of the hardest journalistic mission I’ve ever undertaken — an inquisition into why I’m still alive,” Corridor writes. “The hardest part of my recovery, it turned out, was when I re-entered the real world.”
It’s “an examination not just of my own recovery but of the other people I speak to,” he tells The Publish. “What gave them the ability to just stand up and get through absolutely anything? I think it’s fascinating. It’s human nature at its finest.”
He discovered, he writes, “the trait that most shapes the destinies of people and nations and movements, more critical even than bravery and cunning and all the other human traits, is the capacity to withstand and recover from adversity. Or, in a word, resilience.”
He got down to be taught extra about what offers human beings resilience — and the inspiring e-book by the man with “post-traumatic optimism” teaches methods to get higher at unlocking its energy, it doesn’t matter what scenario you’re going through.
A “key part of the book is that you can grow through struggle,” he says. “You go through something difficult, the next time it happens, you know how to deal with it. You know how to get through it. And ‘post-traumatic growth’ and ‘post-traumatic optimism’ is that.”
Few individuals have confronted simply the challenges Corridor has (and continues to). However his e-book is written for anybody who’s going by way of any kind of hardship in some unspecified time in the future in life — in different phrases, we’re all of the target market.
“It’s fascinating what you just said about resilience, and how people say you’re really resilient and optimistic, but you don’t always feel that way,” he says. “Resilience is not the ability to get through something feeling great the whole time and happy and optimistic the whole time. Resilience is knowing that no matter how difficult is, you will get to the other side — that if you work hard and you set yourself those goals, you will get through.”
And he illustrates that together with his personal experiences, a few of which weren’t simple to revisit.
“I write about the difficult moments, and I write about the painful moments, and I write about the moments that I was so low,” — even “brutal” moments — “but I always knew that I would get through it. So being resilient doesn’t mean that everything is easy. It just means you know that there’ll be something good on the other side. And I think that is the thing most people don’t realize.”
Corridor continues to make changes, each large and small — all with the humorousness he additionally believes is crucial to surviving and thriving.
“I was at a dinner party about six months ago,” he relates, and the particular person reverse him had run out of wine. “I went to pour, and I just totally missed the glass. Because I can’t get depth, yeah? Pouring it on the table. Now you just learn to touch the neck of the bottle on the glass. All the little things that you learn so you’re not spilling on everything,” he concludes with fun.
Certainly, his social life has seen a major shift. His first greater gathering with pals post-recovery led to the painful discovery he might now not sustain with the back-and-forth banter he used to relish.
“I’ve got a couple of really close friends who we see, and they’re mostly war correspondents. We normally end up talking about pretty serious things. I don’t really have that lighthearted, just go out and banter and talk about football, the weather,” he reveals. “Perhaps my focus is in more important places, and I’m perhaps I’m talking about more real things.”
It’s affected his work too.
“The way that my thoughts come don’t work in the same way. There are times when I find just really lining up a number of facts much harder than I would have done before. There are times when I just sometimes have blanks, but that’s fine. That’s the new me. Those are things that I can work around,” he says.
He nonetheless appears to simply give clever solutions to questions on, as an illustration, Ukraine and Russia — and the long run amid a second Trump administration.
“I hope that they can reach some kind of a cease-fire and then a peace deal. And look, it has certainly not gone the way that Ukrainians were hoping it would go. But until we see the final product, I just have to hope that there will be some kind of settlement that everyone agrees on,” he says.
“I just have to be optimistic at this point,” he provides. “Even speaking to some of the people in the Ukrainian government, they say, if we understand the way President Trump works, sometimes what might look really confusing at the beginning ends up being something quite positive at the end because he works in a way no other president has ever worked.”
Corridor and his spouse, Alicia, determined “very early on” they wouldn’t purpose to “get back to the old life we used to have.”
“It’s about adapting. And I think that’s a key lesson. When you’re going through something difficult, be willing to adapt, change the way you do things, and then embrace that. Rather than feeling sad or sorry about what you can no longer do, accept and enjoy the things that you can do.”
He’s doing extra specials now at Fox. He may even strive his hand at fiction.
And the household has embraced a brand new member — Corridor’s fourth daughter, Sage, was born in September. He calls her a “miracle baby.”
“There is a life and a baby person alive today only because I managed to survive,” he says. “And so out of something so dark and so sad, there is this new life. And what an amazing thing to hold up and just to celebrate.”
“I no longer see any hurdles as challenges. I think of them as opportunities,” he provides. “If I see something that’s difficult, boy, do I get even more pleasure from finding a way through it. And that’s what I want to teach my kids.”
