- grew up sleeping on the floor
- always playing in the river - made him curious
- no books
- parents didn't know how to read or write
- made a promise to himself he would never be like that
- gave up soccer to play basketball
- basketball was a way to get a better education through athletic scholarship
- criticized his whole life
- you are capable of anything you put your mind to
- ceiling is being raised too high
- wrote a book about his life
- "important to have a universal conscious"
- no money, no toys, played with roaches
- you cannot plan creativity
- prejudice - shocked
- believe in good and goodness
- fueled by people who judged him
- wants to focus on raising kids more intellectually
- all they do it watch tv - superficial
Some of the main points I took away from this interview are actually pretty eye opening for me. It is crazy to me how this successful man grew up sleeping on the floor, compared to myself and many others who were lucky enough to have a bed under my head and a roof over it. Raul Cuero mentions how he had no books to read while growing up. Reading at a young age was something I always dreaded, and now I realize it is something I took for granted. I am very blessed to have been able to grow up the way I did, and often times when something didn't go my way, I threw temper-tantrums. I wish I could go back to my young self and point out all the ways that I had been so much more privileged than most of the world. Another point I want to start using in my life is how Cuero stressed the importance in having a "universal consciousness". To me, this means understanding the world altogether as one, rather than separately as individuals. It also makes me want to open my perspective to the world and not to be blinded by the media.
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