Interview senior sem
- 1. RahatMadarasmi Interview Q: Can you please introduce yourself? Hi. My name is RahatMadarasmi. I’m 17 years old and I’m from Bangkok, Thailand. This is my 9th year at ISB. Q: Can you state the four ways of knowing and explain them? The four ways of knowing consist of Language, Perception, Reason and Emotion. Language allows us to gain knowledge from other people as we can learn a great deal from word of mouth or from reading it somewhere. Though it should be said that one cannot rely on language completely because it is possible for people to ‘get it wrong’. Perception is primarily based on our experiences and what our senses tell us. Because our senses can sometimes deceive us, it is imperative that we do not blindly trust our perception. Reason allows us to make logical sense of things. Emotion is based on our feelings. Emotions tend to provide us with the drive towards pursuing knowledge but there is the downside that it is possible that they are infallible guides to the truth. Q: What is a topic that you can relate 2 ways of knowing to and what are these ways of knowing A good topic that I can relate to in my life is my experience on the ISB Varsity Soccer team. Because soccer, like any other sport, requires a lot of decision making, reason and emotion play a big part in my decision-making and can either make or break me. Q: How does emotion relate to your experience on the soccer team? Emotion can play a big part in decision making on the soccer pitch because control over your emotions is essential to playing a good game. It is important that your emotions don’t get into the way when you are playing because they can cause some serious damage to your game play and can result in some serious consequences. For example, if you’re angry or upset, this can lead you into making a rash tackle that could result in a yellow card or even a sending off. It is important to keep calm and composed so that your decisions are made based on knowledge of the game and not based on emotions. Q: Can emotion sometimes be beneficial in soccer? The answer to this question is yes. Whether positive or negative, if your emotions are used wisely, they can improve game play. If you are able to channel your negative emotions into making a clean tackle, for example, the anger will give you the drive to pursue a powerful, strong and clean tackle; whereas if you were unable to control these emotions, you would look to take out the player. Positive emotions such as excitement, happiness, and motivation can also be used to one’s advantage if controlled and channeled in the right way. These positive emotions can allow there to be motivation and drive to succeed at the task that they are assigned on the soccer field.
- 2. Q: How does reason relate to your experience on the soccer team? Reason can also play quite a big role in your decision-making on the field. When making a decision, I often use deductive reasoning to make good decisions. For example, during a game, as soccer is a contact sport, it is important to take risks with your body and make slide tackles. At times, your emotions can get in the way and provoke you to make a dirty tackle. This is where reason becomes a great help as you think about the consequences of this tackle. Prior to making the tackle, it takes a split second for me to think about the consequences of this decision. With a tackle like this, it is possible that this results in a Red Card, which would mean that I would be sent off, thus handicapping my team. In the worst possible situation, a freak situation, it is possible that I could end the soccer career of the individual I’m about to tackle. Because I know that a dirty tackle could result in all these repercussions, I used deductive reasoning to make the decision NOT to do a dirty tackle. Thus reason has provided me with the wisdom to make a good decision when emotion was beginning to take over. Q: So can reason be beneficial in soccer? Reason can be very beneficial in soccer as it can counter the major emotions that try to take over your decision-making. When strong emotions interfere with your decision-making, there is the possibility that your decisions be rash and wrong. Reason can potentially counter these decisions as it weighs out the consequences of your actions before you take them. This allows you to consider all the possibilities of what could happen due to your actions. If you didn’t have reason, then the emotions could potentially take over and your decisions would be made out of these pure emotions. This could result in a number of negative consequences if these emotions are not controlled properly. Thus it is imperative that reason is incorporated in your soccer game so that you can make decisions that will not put you in jeopardy. Q: Is emotion more important than reason, or do you need both to do well in soccer? In order to be a successful soccer player, you need to have a balance of both. Just emotion on its own is really bad but with reason, it can balance out that emotion and with both of them together, you can make the best decisions you can possibly make on the field and have the ideal game-play that you desire. Thus it is extremely important to have the correct balance of emotion and reason because emotion can propel you into doing the right things, but reason can hold you back from doing a little too much. So reason can provide that balance.