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There is a pattern I have seen repeat for over 25 years — and that has even happened to me. Someone reaches the end of a difficult period in life — work, caring for others, giving more than they received — and decides that this is the moment to make the change their life demands.…
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In September 2025, I was on the TEDx Braga stage and, for the first time out loud, asked a room with more than 100 people this question: How much does it cost you to be alive? How much does it cost to be here, present, attentive, functional? I wasn’t referring to money. I was referring…
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For millennia, the greatest enemy of human survival has been infection. An infected wound, a high fever, an epidemic. The body that could not fight the invader would die. This was the logic of survival: defend, attack, eliminate. The immune system was shaped for that world. And it did its job with extraordinary effectiveness. That’s…