A manager named Isaac mentored the speaker and encouraged them to pursue a managerial role. The speaker spent a summer trying to meet his expectations and adopt his mannerisms, but ultimately burned out from the effort.
And I started spending a lot of time with my manager Isaac that year, and we never trained. We never, you know, we talked about, you know, recruiting, whatever. And one day Isaac mentioned to me that I could become a manager, and I truly believed that I could, that nobody's better than me. I don't believe I'm better than anybody else, but I don't think there's a single person that's better than me. And I looked at him, and I look up to Isaac. He's, you know, my mentor, my leader, my one of my best friends, and I just, I could see that he really did believe in me, and I dedicated the rest of the summer to getting to that level, being able to become an assistant manager, and I did whatever he asked and told me to do, but I spent so much time with him, I picked up every mannerism that the man had, and that led to me exploding
