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John made the guys switch chairs, and the students introduced themselves to another new friend. From the front of the room, John took it all in, slowly walking back and forth, occasionally sitting on the table for a brief rest, but continually grinning at the communication he was witnessing. After a few minutes, he raised his hands, and the class went silent again. “The reason I am doing this is because for the rest of your life you have to somehow introduce yourself to people and make a good impression, especially in job interviews.”

“The key,” he continued, “is to be confident.”

As I looked around, I noticed students nodding along.

“How do you do that? Just be confident and tell yourself this is going to be the best interview the interviewer ever had.” I smiled when I heard this line—he used a variation of it frequently on the football field as well. But now that I heard it in his classroom, I realized it was one of his core beliefs.

“You,” John said, pointing at Jimmy, his burly and affable center, “come up here.” A few weeks earlier I had met Jimmy for the first time, and he had told me how excited he was to take John’s class.