The Interview
The Interview is a powerful medium that allows the outside world to get into your inner world.
To connect with you in your context: what makes you, you? How did you arrive where you did?
To connect with you in your context: what makes you, you? How did you arrive where you did?
When conducted in a particular manner, the interviewer and the interviewee undertake an amazing journey into the past, present and future.
Once I was publicly interviewing an entrepreneur who was fairly well-known to the audience present. As the interview started and he finished answering the first question; he attempted to direct the interview and the audience was still slightly distracted.
I calmly gestured to him to hold on and asked my second question compelling him to go deeper into his past. The question touched a raw nerve, the details quietly tumbled out. The room fell still. Not a soul moved, as they latched on to his every word.
I asked just one more question after that and he answered. I had nothing more to ask and the audience seamlessly took over the questioning. It was a cathartic moment for the interviewee.
It was the only interviewee where I depended on somebody else to “record” the interview. The recording was never passed on to me and it was lost to posterity.
Not every interview is the same; nor is every interviewer.
