Will Hall
Will Hall
Will Hallis an American mental health advocate, counselor, writer, and teacher. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, he is a leader in the peer support movement and is an organizer within the psychiatric survivors movement. Hall advocates the recovery approach to mental illness and is recognized internationally as an innovator in the treatment and societal response to psychosis...
nice guy top-10
It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that.
distance temptation training
I try to avoid the temptation with time as a total indicator for what my possibilities are for the marathon. It's the not the best indicator, but it's more how you feel, how you cover the distance and how you are able to do the training afterward.
running strong race
More than the time, it's about how you feel - you want to be strong throughout the race.
running real greatness
I think some of the most celebrated moments in human achievement should be those times when everything is going against a person and they are down in the dumps but they simply choose to get up. That's real greatness!
believe winning lines
I don't go to the start line expecting to win. I go to the start believing this could be the day when incredible things happen
men mad training
I constantly remind myself that resting takes confidence. Anyone can train like a mad man but to embrace rest and to allow all the hard training to come out takes mental strength.
integrity fame
Nothing is worth your integrity. Not success, not money, not fame. Nothing.
teacher suffering extraordinary
Suffering is an extraordinary teacher.
believe way tough
The best way to become a mentally tough runner is to believe that you're a mentally tough runner
running thinking just-being
I don't think about the miles that are coming down the road, I don't think about the mile I'm on right now, I don't think about the miles I've already covered. I think about what I'm doing right now, just being lost in the moment.
wonder moments lost
You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.
kissing suffering firsts
You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.
solitude misunderstood conditions
Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.
children law layers
All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.