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I'm passionate about

ideas, the own passion that burns in my heart, making a difference, creating, improving things and myself, difunding knowledge, earning knowledge.

Talk to me about

Anything that's worth it. I'm open to any subject, from common senses to taboos.

People don't know that I'm good at

Understanding somebody else's feelings.

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  A comment on Conversation: If you have NEVER been to Africa, when someone mentions "Africa" or you hear "Africa", what is the FIRST thing that comes into your mind?

  Apr 17 2013: Unfortunatelly, I'll have to say it's the poverty and skinny black people. These images are massively used in propaganda and just stick to our brains. But, Africa is a very diverse place. I don't think that you can have only one image of the entire continent. For example, I live in Brazil, which is just one country, and still, you can't have only one image to illustrate the whole nation. :)
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  A comment on Conversation: Is there anything that a human being can never possibly do?

  Feb 6 2013: To know what really is reality and truth.

• A reply on Conversation: What Next? After a great TED / TEDx conference with hundreds of ideas, what can we do to help people got o the next level! DO something!

  Apr 17 2012: Scott, I believe big part of the systems were created with the intention of succeed. I see great ideas being executed all around a lot of nations, what is making the systems putrid is the lack of virtues of the governants. Imagine capitalism in the just city system proposed by Plato. Systems are supposed to work, but the human vices corrupt the execution of great ideas.

• A comment on Conversation: What Next? After a great TED / TEDx conference with hundreds of ideas, what can we do to help people got o the next level! DO something!

  Apr 17 2012: Spread the ideas. Try to reach people's mind, make them elevate from their standards.

• A comment on Conversation: How will TEDx change the world?

  Apr 17 2012: Tedx can make a bigger difference being more opened to the low class citizens. The big key for a mental revolution in the world is attaching directly on education, specially poor people. This is quite difficult, counting that many of the groups inside this "category" don't have any access to Ted's materials. I didn't have myself a few days ago, it was a happy accident that I found out about this. Maybe Ted could come up with simpler projects. Even if you reach a lower population, their precarious formation won't be enough to let Ted's materials reach their minds and trully make a difference. Not that I underestimate these people, it's not more than a horrendous reality.