NARRATIVE INTERVIEW (BENJAMIN MALLOY)
The person I interviewed is Benjamin Malloy, my uncle. He works as a sales and marketing executive and has had a lot of influence in my life. I look up to him as a mentor. His resilience, determination and hard work are what I admire. During the interview, he acknowledged playing football as being the most important experience that helped in shaping the man he is today.
He became a football player when he joined high school and credits it for having taught him a plenty of the things he applies in his daily life. When he started playing football, he was not considered as having the body or character of an athlete. He accredits this for having taught him perseverance. He was chubby and not among the good players in the team. This got him mocked a lot. The constant mocking brought many tears and thoughts of quitting. He spent a lot of time practicing and the endless drills and aching muscles improved his skills and earned the respect of his …show more content…
He narrated a story of how during the tryouts for the school football team he received a lot of discouragement with a lot of people not seeing him as capable of playing football. The negativity was meant to make him drop out of the trials but he ignored all of it and built his self-confidence. He convinced himself that he would do it as long as he had the passion for it. This self-confidence is what lead him to find the limit he can reach. This helped him gain a great amount of confidence and sculpted him into the man he is today. The confidence he gained earned him respect from his teammates. This confidence has been important in his current profession of sales and marketing. Without this confidence, customers would not believe in him or the product he is selling. The self-confidence has also made him not to be easily discouraged by defeat or failure but instead learn from his
The person I interviewed is Benjamin Malloy, my uncle. He works as a sales and marketing executive and has had a lot of influence in my life. I look up to him as a mentor. His resilience, determination and hard work are what I admire. During the interview, he acknowledged playing football as being the most important experience that helped in shaping the man he is today.
He became a football player when he joined high school and credits it for having taught him a plenty of the things he applies in his daily life. When he started playing football, he was not considered as having the body or character of an athlete. He accredits this for having taught him perseverance. He was chubby and not among the good players in the team. This got him mocked a lot. The constant mocking brought many tears and thoughts of quitting. He spent a lot of time practicing and the endless drills and aching muscles improved his skills and earned the respect of his …show more content…
He narrated a story of how during the tryouts for the school football team he received a lot of discouragement with a lot of people not seeing him as capable of playing football. The negativity was meant to make him drop out of the trials but he ignored all of it and built his self-confidence. He convinced himself that he would do it as long as he had the passion for it. This self-confidence is what lead him to find the limit he can reach. This helped him gain a great amount of confidence and sculpted him into the man he is today. The confidence he gained earned him respect from his teammates. This confidence has been important in his current profession of sales and marketing. Without this confidence, customers would not believe in him or the product he is selling. The self-confidence has also made him not to be easily discouraged by defeat or failure but instead learn from his