Pick yourself up 使自己保持振作
"Hitting the wall" is an all too common experience that befalls athletes and Gebrselassie isn't an exception. But, he said, resilience is key.
“撞墻”是所有運動員都體驗過的,海里也不例外。但是他說,要盡快調整恢復過來很重要。
It's all in the mind, he said, and his philosophy is to always be "mentally fit."
全部都在你的意識里,他說,他的人生哲學是永遠要“精神上最好”
"Many years back at the beginning of my athletics career, I injured myself during a marathon in Addis Ababa and I couldn't walk for almost a week.
“許多年以前,在我運動員生涯剛開始時,我在亞的斯亞貝巴馬拉松中受傷了,我幾乎一周都不能走路。”
"I was wounded physically, but mentally I wanted to continue. If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard."
“那只是身體上受傷,但是在精神上我還想繼續。如果你的身體受傷,它可以治好,但是如果你的內心,精神上受到傷害后你不能治好,那就完了。”
This mentality has helped Gebrselassie in his business career as well as his athletic one.
這種精神治療法在他的商業方面和運動員生涯一樣幫助了他。