TEDxOPorto - Perspective

These posts about TEDxOPorto will be written in English 

so I can share with the world the ideas worth spreading.

Everyone knows that the higher your expectations the unhappiest you become. 

If you dream big reality will always seem too small.

We can argue that the size of each person’s dreams is conditioned by a subjective perception. It´s true. Even ones evaluation of happiness is conditioned by timing, conjecture and constraints. 

We can find ourselves unexplainably happy with sand between our toes or miserably unhappy standing tall on Loubotin pumps.

In the end it is all a question of perspective.

One of the speakers at TEDxOPorto came to talk precisely about this thing we can call perspective, the way you sense, categorize and measure reality.

Jorge Moutinho is an architect, or used to be one, trapped by the financial collapse of a global economy built on toxic assets. Suddenly the perspective he had about life changed.

The immediate reaction was to magnify his problems. The second was to understand their origin.

Jorge began to study the financial markets to comprehend how could a collapse in the USA had such a gigantic domino effect around the globe. He was probably looking for relief, something some people find in spirituality others in rationality.

Jorge discovered an intriguing and extraordinary new world and he understood that the ocean was so vast and deep that if he could learn how to tame a drop he would solve his financial personal problems.

So he did.

Jorge is now a well-off Forex Trader.

Being successful and having downscaled his personal problems he decided he should payback.

Jorge teaches others the basics of Forex trading so any person with a will can find a way of earning money. At TEDxOPorto he told the audience he would offer a workshop on the subject for free on the condition that people who benefited from that offer paid forward this gift.

A human being basically has four types of concerns: money, health, work and time. A society’s concerns are an amplified version of those and each one of us should be contributing for finding solutions not adding problems.

Our problems look smaller when we change perspective. 

Others problems become smoother when we ease them.