Phil Karanja’s mediocre academic record inspired him to make a promise to succeed and disprove the notion that he was a loser.
On Monday, July 17, Phil admitted that he had academic difficulties but detested the idea that he would amount to nothing in life while speaking to Lynn Ngugi on her YouTube channel.
But his parents had a disagreement with him about his grades. In particular, his father gave Phil self-doubt.
“I had an amazing father and mother, The only thing we fought about was my love for sports and art, and at that time he was right there was no future for arts and sports then,”
His father desired that he pursue a career in accountancy or medicine.
“That’s the only thing we never connected with my dad apart from that he was a great man, and now as a dad I see it, coz you want the best for your child,”
But to him these things, art, acting, music, he was like, what is all this? The most you are going to amount to is maybe a teacher.
That’s what he kept telling me, so I think when you start from a young age, you’ve always told you are not good enough because you are not getting the a’s that your sisters are getting, it gets to you.
I was an average student so I always fought with my dad. When I cleared High School I got a C. For us in our family that was a failure, so by the way everyone at home was wondering what will we do with him, and I think at that point is when something snapped because I was doomed to be a failure. Everyone believed I was going to be a failure.
And right from when I cleared high school I have been putting in the hours, I started with scripting and directing church plays.
Because my parents weren’t sure what to do with me, so they asked me what I want to do, I said I want to do film.
