David & Goliath

We have all read or heard the story of David and Goliath. The story of someone very tiny, with everything against him, defeating the all-powerful and all mighty giant.

Who has never heard at a football match in the telly or any other sporting event saying, “This is a David against Goliath match!”.

Did the little shepherd had great luck in defeating the almighty giant? Some divine intervention caused David to win? Is the probability of this happening so small that they made this an entertaining story? Just like with Santa Claus story?

Just as Malcolm Gladwell shown on in his book David and Goliath, this podcast will also tell you that the story of David and Goliath has been told in the wrong way.

I'm going to tell real stories from normal people or people known from the public who, after all, always has great and enormous chances of beating their giants. What you ultimately need is five stones and a sling!

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At 15th March by 7:30 PM that same day, I was checking in to embark on one of the most fantastic adventures I've ever had in my entire life.
And it was on this adventure that I met someone who inspired me immensely. His name is Vitor Cardoso, a former football player from Sporting's of Lisbon youth teams. Life led him away from his football career due to a major injury and a significant loss, subsequently taking him down dark and winding paths.
What's certain is that at the end of our training session, the craziest of our lives, I saw him laughing again. And what a smile he was showing!
And it's him that I'm going to talk about today. The man who didn't smile. Vitor Cardoso.

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Our hero from today episode is humble, stoic and brave.
He’s a guy who was born in 1945 in the North Side of the Island, in a place call Ponta Delgada. A man who was born into extreme poverty, who had everything to go wrong with is life. His name is, not Superman but António Justino Ferreira.
As it is written at the beginning of his book “António Justino never surrendered to the fate of what he encountered in life and soon began to chart his destiny […] still very young, upon discovering that he did not have his luck, he picked up a knife and He traced his destiny in the palm of his hand.”
Life was never his allied. Quite the contrary! Many of us couldn't handle 1/3 of what António handle and overcome. A true David!
He showed us time and time again that it is in the desired difficulties that we find the glory of victory, even though the victory is not always the thing we think it is.

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In today's episode I explain how I'm passing by my message to my fellow workers. How can I make them feel that they belonging to the team?
Communication. The foundation of the human success, here in this planet
How also Shakespeare inspired me to make today's episode.
I hope you enjoy it and hope by the end you realise and there is no "Us & Them". Only Us

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