A Truer Self
I asked him whether I could be a good teacher when I was such an introvert. He told me, “teaching is very similar to acting. You have to tell a story and also perform it to make your students understand it. You have to think of yourself as a character who is a great teacher. ” To be something or someone that I’m not, seemed counterintuitive. It was much later that I really understood what he was saying. It is not merely a character that he portrays, it is a no-filter version of himself. In a way, while teaching he is more of himself than he is in any other time.
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