Raul Cuero Interview

For class I had to watch Raul Cuero’s interview about his life and how he got to where he is today. Coming from nothing, Raul was able to go to college through a basketball scholarship. Off the court he was seen as someone with zero value other than his talent for basketball. This inspires him to persevere in his studies in order to prove everyone wrong. He gets a scholarship to come to a university in America and the last thing he hears before he leaves is that his god given gift is just sports. This pushes him to leave his country.

He explains in the interview there is the universal conscience meaning that you can take all of the factors that are in your way and rise above them in order to reach the full potential you can be at. The interviewer also asks how he used creativity in order to rise above the many circumstances holding him back. As a child he had no toys and virtually nothing to do so he came up with other ways to entertain himself. One interesting way is when he played with roaches and observed their movements and how they interacted with each other. He became knowledgeable on random subjects that privileged kids would probably not know too much about.

Cuero also talks about his work ethic which I think is inspiring. He says that too many people today are afraid of failure and rejection because they do not want to do something that requires a lot of work and process. He says that you need to have intensity with everything that you do. I agree because if you do not work hard you will not achieve your full goal which is what Cuero did despite the odds.

Cuero points out that kids now have a hard time working hard and solving problems because they do not think outside of the box. He refers to their thought process as “following a menu” instead of working hands on. He believes firmly in hand on learning which means that you take outside knowledge and learn new knowledge to create something.

I think that Raul Cuero is a great example of perseverance. He proves that you do not have to let your circumstances define you and that you can think outside of the box and achieve anything you set your mind to. Do not let other people put you down or make you think you are incapable of doing any less.