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🇬🇧 My first experiences on cultural trips

First time I spent (or invested) my money to travel it was to know the Carnival in Janauba, a small brazilian city, a few hours by car from Montes Claros, where I was born. I was 21 then (1997), and my dear friend and colleague Danilo was from that city. Brazilian actor Jackson Antunes, who was called "the brazilian Charles Bronson" when he gained space on national TV, was also born in Janauba. I remember my grandmother was terrified because my brother, 5 years younger, would travel with me and share the same room. If I had the mind of today, I would go alone just to terrify her more. The party was good. Very different from many famous carnivals as Rio, Salvador or Venice, but it was nice. My second experience was to follow brazilian band Shaman, when Andre Mattos left Angra to sing with this band, during the first shows of the Ritual tour (2002). I saw the show in Uberlandia, where I lived, at a pub. The show was my suggestion to David, the owner, one day I met him in front ...

🇬🇧 Could you improve your standards?

Life teach us discreetly to improve constantly. Not everyone understands this simple lesson.
When we go to school we start learning some easy things, that are challenging for us that time, and the challenges increase year after year. Some students are lazy and barely study enough to pass to the next level. Other ones are interested in understand each theme and ask questions, research in books or in the internet, etc. To study is not about to go to school or to the university. To study is to cultivate the desire to learn and to improve.
When we play video games, each level is more difficult than the previous one.
At work, more than ambition, what make us go from assistant or intern to manager or director should be this need of being better day after day, to embrace new challenges and generate self development.
Lazy students become mediocre professionals. Outstanding professionals are built from childhood, learning to appreciate challenges since they’re very young. Are sports good for this? I think they can be, but they’re not the only path. To learn to ask questions and to analyse each theme is very important. Sports and arts and philosophy are very helpful to see the world from different perspectives.
Any machine is able to blindly follow rules. After the boom of the profession of personal stylist, with TV shows about this and everything else, we could find apps which do what some people imagine is “the same” work. It’s not. What apps do is to apply the techniques, the formulas. The true activity of a competent personal stylist is beyond techniques. It’s like art. Anyone can learn to play guitar and try to sing Bon Jovi’s songs in local bars. But there is only one Bon Jovi in the world. True personal style only is possible through highly qualified human advice, like myself. You won’t find anything better. But if your self esteem is low, you’ll consider any crumb like apps or any other professional. This is worse for you. They don’t know the path to help you to perform a deep transformation in yourself through style as I can. I am for those who deserve the best, even when they already know outstanding fashion brands, when they have the best of everything, because they still don’t know what I know. Even celebrities make style mistakes.
Everyone must improve ones standards continuously. If you don’t have this as part of yourself, as natural as breathing, you’re a loser.

Nycka, the nomad

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