Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Alex Rodriguez. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Alex, we’re thrilled to have you sharing your thoughts and lessons with our community. So, for folks who are at a stage in their life or career where they are trying to be more resilient, can you share where you get your resilience from?
My mother died when I was two years of age and my father abandoned me when I turned four years old.
I grew up in East L.A. in the middle of the hood and I went to jail a few times which made me realize it’s not the place to be.
Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?
I have an extreme passion for writing poetry and becoming one day a professional motivational speaker. By creating my own genre of literature influenced my lessons learned in my childhood years. When I lived in Mexico as a kid I was homeless and at times I didn’t have enough to eat.
I hope one day I can motivate the youth through my literature and become the next Shakespeare.
If my literature would to be published and taught at universities throughout the world, inclusively years after my death and I could inspire others while in the grave. I would have created something larger than life.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
One of the qualities I could say I possess since early on my academic journey was to believe in myself and get rid of doubt. I always knew I was going to do something constructive with my life.
Another quality is being resilient through good and difficult times. To know that through every dark night there’s a brighter day.
The quality of being a visionary to be able to create your own path by designing a plan to reach it. Being resourceful with the situations you were dealt.
As we end our chat, is there a book you can leave people with that’s been meaningful to you and your development?
The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur
This book of collection of poems illustrates that we are all roses and the concrete is the struggle. See, if you were walking down the street and you happened to see a rose that grew from the cracks of the concrete, you wouldn’t talked down on its crookedness or its thorns. You would be surprised to see a rose that grew from the concrete and made its way to reach the sun. So why is it that when we meet a young street child who can make us laugh, think, reason and reconsider, all we can see is how he/she is dressing or conducting themselves but we can’t even see that they came up out of all that dirtiest and dangerously places.
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