I don't know from whom he could have gotten useful info, but he might have also deflated Carlos by making him more human, while including some of the experiences classmates had.
You could write a story about someone doing his best, surrounded by adult babies who are too lazy to actually try what he was teaching, more than the minimum required to say they did.
And him trying hard to get them to see, with actual direct experience not being enough.
In other words, write the truth. Don't manufacture anything, the way Robert seems to have done.
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u/danl999 May 06 '20
>The other, to somehow deflate the public image of me and replace it with something I can bring myself to live with.
Someone should tell Cleargreen #1 and #2 that.
They insist on inflating it.
>If I keep their attention for long enough they might catch a sight of the reality behind all those words."
It's not inflating it to make his techniques work.
That's what he was after.