And when you ask what you want to be, normally I want a little question that we ask the child, right? What do you want to be when you grow up? You are asking what the person will do, and not what she will be. That it has nothing to do with being that. I can be an engineer, I can be a salesman, I can be a builder, I can be a doctor, it has nothing to do with what I am as a human being. This is an occupation. If I go from one occupation to another, I
will not stop being. That is, from the point of view of being, we do not aspire to anything. We don't even stop to think about it. Is there anything to aspire to? Or is that what was given? Will we be what we are until the end of life? Are we happy with what we are at this moment? Are we prepared to be the same thing until the last day of our lives? Or does this bring us some kind of concern? Would we like to move forward a little, go further? What kind of human being would
you like to be? When all this is over? What do you want to be? We can be what we want to be. A little of this idea of self-made man, which is this well-known statue of man building himself. A very beautiful idea. But the important thing is to know how to transform this idea into an attitude. How do we build ourselves? We can do anything we want, but we have to know the limits of our fulfillment. The first thing I would ask when we do this placement of we can be what we want to be,
is we want to be something? I think this is the first thing to be asked. At some point we have a pretension of being, talking about being something, or we simply have a certain script to be realized in life, a very repetitive script, which says, we will have things, from the places where we will go, from the places where we will live, but it says absolutely nothing about us. If you ask a person on the street, talking a little about statistics, what she intends to be in life, she will tell you, in most cases, where
she intends to go, if she wants to make an outdoor trip, where she intends to work, where she intends to live, and what she intends to have. What are the material objects she intends to acquire. And she will not tell you a word of being, what she intends to be. As if there was nothing to build in this field. And when you ask what you want to be, usually that little question we ask children, what do you want to be when you grow up? You are asking what the person will do, and not what she
will be. That has nothing to do with being that. I can be an engineer, a mechanic, a builder, a doctor, it has nothing to do with what I am as a human being. This is an occupation. If I go from one occupation to another, I will not stop being. In other words, from the point of view of being, we do not aspire to anything. We do not even stop to think about it. Is there anything to aspire to? Or is that what was given? Will we be what we are until the end of our lives?
Are we happy with what we are in this world? Are we ready to be the same thing until the last day of our lives? Or does this bring us some kind of concern? Would we like to move forward a little? What kind of human being would you like to be when all this is over? Who has ever thought about it? A little of what the Roman emperor Marco Aurelius Stoic said, if I were to die tomorrow, who would I like to see in the mirror? What kind of human being would I like to have built?
Or I don't want to build anything, I came here to do things, and not to do it myself. Has anyone ever stopped to think, has anyone ever told you that the fundamental thing you came to do here is yourself? That things don't need you so much? If the human being did not exist, nature might even be more satisfied than it is. And things would continue to happen. But wouldn't it have flying machines? Yes, it would have. There are planets flying everywhere, comets are flying, everything is flying. But wouldn't they have such fast machines? There is
the speed of light that nature created. It doesn't need us to do things. It needs us to do ourselves. And we still think we are the makers of things. If we are counted, from the point of view of nature, under the look of nature, we are the ones who do things. The things we do for it must be bringing much more harm than benefit. Because the first thing we should do is the construction of ourselves. Because then everything else would be guaranteed. But you do things without having done it yourself, it's complicated. This week we
will have the entry in posters of a movie called Oppenheimer. You know, right? It's the story of the atomic bomb creator. It's a good time for us to stop, to think how mature we are for the type of technology we are creating. Because we are facing another dilemma. Artificial intelligence is there, with risks. We know it offers risks of all kinds. In other words, the things we do, they can be of a positive or negative polarity, useful or useless, dangerous or beneficial, depending on the human being who does it. The first thing that this human
being should have done is to himself. The construction of a solid character, of a worldview, based on values. The first thing he should have built is to himself. Because then anything he did would be guaranteed. Without this psychological, moral, spiritual base, which is the construction of oneself, the things we do start to become doubtful and dangerous. And many times it has been in history. This episode of Oppenheimer is only one episode. There have been several in history. Where our ability to do things became a little debatable. So let's think a little about this question. Do
we want to be something? If you were to ask someone what do you want to be? Some would say this first alternative. I don't know, I'm taken by the circumstances. If he recognizes that. That is, today everyone is critical. I will be critical. Everyone is enjoying such a thing. I'm enjoying such a thing. It's impressive, because if you take the agenda of fashion, what you think now, what is in fashion, intellectually speaking, what are the elements that are more practiced by society today, you make a list of the preferences of 90% of people. 90% of
people are being chosen, are being dressed, are being thought in many cases. Authenticity is very rare. It is very little that group of human beings who are really, sign below the creation of themselves. They think, they are, they do what they chose to be. So there is this first group, which hardly recognizes, right? But if it recognized, would it have to say that to us? I don't know. I'm taken by the circumstances. Everyone thinks today in one way, tomorrow thinks of another. And it's amazing, because if I take a person who thinks today in one
way, and tomorrow she thinks of another, I'll think she was the one who changed, and not society. It doesn't recognize this mass pressure on your choices. It doesn't recognize that it is being thought. And that's the worst, because if it recognized, it would have a chance. If the person came and said, I am a massified person, it would have a chance, it has already seen. And as it saw, now it has a chance to change. But in many cases, there is no such awareness, right? There is no such first case. Other people would answer you,
I think I know what I want, I want to be. I have a personal goal, in personal projection or posses. That is, an ambition. Normally a competitive thing, right? I want to become a known person, I want to become a person with a certain number of posses. It's between us. This is not what you want to be. We already talked a little about this at the beginning. These are personal projects. This is not a sense of life. It's not what you want to be. You consider, the meaning of life, what you want to be, is
something that justifies your whole life. And not just a whim, that at a certain moment runs out. Ah, I want to be a person who performs such a profession. Okay, I am. I'm performing such a profession. If tomorrow or later I decide to do something else, I stop being? No, I'm still the same. This is simply an office. This is a personal project. That is, it's funny when we ask people, what they want to be. They will tell you a lot of things that are very superficial and passing. Ah, I want to be a person
owner of an apartment like this, you know. Okay, have your apartment. There's nothing wrong with that. But the next day of the apartment, you will live on what? If the meaning of life was just that. It's over, right? It often happens to people who have these very well-resolved financial issues, people who have a certain level of posses, maybe you've already heard about it, and they go into depression. Simply because there comes a certain moment that, now where? What is missing is the desire. Because life was placed with a simple accumulation of desires. And when I
fulfilled my desires, will I live on what now? What will be the next day of the one who already has the car, already has the apartment, already made the trip, already worked on what he wanted? Life can't be just that. Life is something much bigger than that. And then comes this third group of people, that really, if you ask them what you want to be, they will tell you, I know what I want to be. I have an idealistic purpose in life, I want to become a better human being. This purpose is explicit in everything
I do. I know how to work for the other, I know how to work for everything. I want to be a true human being. I want to achieve what we can consider the maximum of the human condition. I want to complete myself as a human being. This is a person who has a meaning of life for life. It will never happen that he gets up in the morning and doesn't have anything to live for. Once I saw a person describing a depression episode, that touched me a lot, because I found it a very painful experience.
She said she was in the middle of a depression crisis, she opened her eyes in the morning and looked at the ceiling of the room and tried to list one or two good reasons to get up from bed and start all over again. And she couldn't find it. One or two good reasons to keep living. And she couldn't find it. If it's something that everyone knows, but in practice it's a little difficult for us to put it objectively in life, is that a person without motivation is subject to all psychological dramas in the world. And
to get a person out of a psychological drama, you need to have something above, that pulls her, that gives her the condition to have the guts to get out of it. To have something bigger than dedicating your life. That is, an idealism that gives this person a motivation for life. I want to be a true human being. And the true human being makes a difference in the world. And last but not least, I want to change the world. As small as it is. Because I existed. And this is called an idealist. An idealist is a
citizen who can even give up. He can even live a crisis. But he will get out of it. You know why? When he opens his eyes in the morning, when he looks at the ceiling of his room, he sees a good reason to keep fighting. I will not leave the world the way I found it. I will not leave here the size I was when I arrived. I will leave bigger than I entered. And the world will get a little better because I existed. I do not give up making a difference. So I can tell
you that this idealist self that exists dormant within all of us is where our ability to be motivated and overcome the dramas of life comes from. Overcome the adversities. Because it is something that justifies the last breath. Until the last moment. Until the last breath of life is justified by this objective. If I have a breath of life, in this breath of life I will try to benefit the world in some way. I will try to say that word that someone needs to hear. I will try to take that comfort that that person needs to
receive. I will try to conquer that level of feelings that I would like to conquer. As long as there is life, I will be fighting to be a better human being. To seek this ideal. That is, a person who has an ideal is a person who has a protagonist. Who has an antagonism. Who has his own movement. Who is not pushed by circumstances. And then she starts to have conditions to really build anything on his own. Who wishes the ends, wishes the means. Think that this is a generation, I don't need to tell you this,
everyone knows, it is in the statistics, a generation that suffers from a tendency to depression, to collective melancholy. Why is that? What are we motivated by? What do we live for? What are we looking for? So the first thing we would have to ask ourselves about this topic is What do I want to be? Do I want to be something? Do I have a goal that justifies my whole life? Something that is real, that is not bound to things, circumstances, situations. Something that depends only on me. This is the fundamental element for us to start
discussing when we talk about this subject. I think that if all human beings, I always give an example, let me give this example to you, I think it makes it clearer what I'm trying to say. I have here a vase of flowers on top of a table that has three legs. And then I decide to do an experiment. I'm going to cut the legs of this table. I cut the first leg. It is very likely that the table will already tremble and drop the vase on the floor and it will fall. Let's say I cut
this first leg and it can still, supported there on the wall, it can still stand up. Very insecure, but still. And then I go and cut a next leg. There's no way. Then everything goes to the ground and this vase is broken. Isn't it true? Now, if before that I made a hole here on this ceiling, and I put one of those samambaia hooks, plant, well fixed, well stuck, and put a chain there, something that would hold this vase, in such a way that it would only be scratching the table, but its support point is
up there. I go and cut one leg of the table. What happens to the vase? Nothing. I go and cut two. What happens to him? Nothing at all. I can cut all the legs of the table. And he stands up, because he just scratches the table. His support point is up there. Now stop to imagine what our support point is. We have circumstances that hold us to the world. That is, a profession, friends, a financial situation. Let's say these are the three legs of my table. Life comes and cuts one of these legs. I have
a breakup, I don't know, a divorce. It's already a strong thing in my life. Many people already unbalance there. If in addition to that life comes and cuts another leg, that is, my financial life also enters a chaos, most people will be satisfied. Most people will not be able to stand up. But there have been in history, men who went through situations where all the legs of his table were cut and remained standing. Where was the support point of these people? Above. They had an ideal. They had something they wanted to conquer as human beings.
They wanted to get there. And therefore, regardless of the material circumstances, they root the world. But they don't depend on the world. And so, whatever happens there, they stand up. And they leave the other side bigger than they entered. That is, the first thing we have to consider from the point of view of wanting, is to want to be in fact. Wanting to be a complete, complete human being is the best thing we can want to be. So let's start discussing from there. Think of two possibilities that exist. When we say, you can be what
you want to be. Let's first work with this idea. Divided into two groups. We can do what we want to do. We can be what we want to be. First, do it. Let's go. Field of doing. In the field of doing, can I do anything I want? No. There are limitations. What kind of limitation? But if I try hard, can I do anything? There are still limitations. And some are unbearable. Very complicated. Some you can try and maybe surpass. Others, no. In the field of doing, for example, you have moral limitations. I can't take possession
of what is not mine. I could, but the consequences are serious. Not only for the penalty I will suffer with it. But for my own identity that I lose with it. When I take possession of what does not correspond to me, what is not mine, it is not simply an object that I legitimately gained. It is my identity that I let be scratched. I became an immoral person. I became a thief. It is too expensive for you to have an object. To have whatever it is. In other words, in the moral field there is an
impossibility. You should not do. Therefore, you can not do everything you want. In the mental field, can I have the intelligence of an Einstein? Just because I want to? It would be good, right? But I can't. There are limitations from the mental point of view. As much as I try hard, that I study, there are limitations. I can not have the intelligence of an Einstein from one time to another. Not even throughout a lifetime. There are differences, different circumstances of life, other possibilities for us to develop. And they are very good. But the intelligence of
Einstein is not going to give. What else? From an emotional point of view. Can I have the solitude of an Agnes now? Have you ever heard of this lady called Agnes? An American who became an example for the whole world. She was just a simple housewife. One day, her only daughter and her little grandson, a child, were killed in a crime. A very violent crime. And this woman managed to forgive the criminal for this crime. Not only forgive, but also help him somehow in the jail. She was able to feel compassion for this man, and
somehow helped him. She realized the psychological drama that had been there. She was able to change the life of this man. She was a great example. A person who is able to go beyond a limitation that very few would be able to overcome. The level of rebellion, hatred, in a circumstance like this. She was able to go beyond and have compassion. And have pity. And do everything she could to help this human being. Of course we think it's beautiful. And it's really very beautiful. But just because I think it's beautiful, would she have the same
emotional condition as she does now? It's very complicated. She would have to work all her life. Maybe she even comes to have. But she would have to work all her life to reach this level of emotional maturity. To be able to do something like that. Imagine a situation like that. A pain of this size, and you are able to feel the total absence of hatred. Total revenge. It is a real spirit of compassion. That is, it may even be that we will conquer this someday. But it's not for now. These are emotional limitations that we
would still have to grow a lot in this field. And from a physical point of view? Can I play soccer like Pelé? If I want to? I'm going to start studying female soccer. Let's see if I can. It will not work. There are obviously limitations. In the field of doing, we are full of limitations. There are limits at all levels of our personality. Physical, emotional, mental. Not everything we want to do, we will be able to do. So we can't do everything we shouldn't or can't do now. And the field of being? How does it
work? Do I also have limitations? What do you think? Are there limitations in the field of being? Let's see how it works. In the field of being. There is a Renaissance author. You may have heard of him. His name is Pico de la Mirandola. He wrote something called The Discourse of Man's Dignity. Where he will talk about something exceptional. I brought a piece of this speech to show you. The ability of the human being to be what he intends to be. If he really wants it. What is a stone? It is a being defined by
inertia. It does not move. Inertia and resistance. It is standing still in place. If I want to be like a stone, can I? Can I not be an absolutely inert person? Stay inside my house? Absolutely resistant to any activity? Total and absolute laziness? Can't I do that? So much so that there are many people who do. There are many people who have total inactivity as happiness. Perfect happiness. The dolce far niente. The sweet not doing anything. That is, I can. A plant. A plant lives on the function of capturing energy. It is the basis of
the food chain. It takes the food itself from nature. Everyone feeds through it. Therefore, it is a being that has a focus. Seek energy. It lives on this. Seek energy. Take energy from the earth, from the sun. And make your own food. If I want to live on the function of seeking energy, which in the human field would be, for example, time, money, that is, I would become a great ambitious. Can't I do that too? So much so that there are many people who do. Live on the function of making money. And never think you
have enough. You are eternally wanting to accumulate more and more and more and more energy. One day I saw a situation like this. How bizarre humanity is! What we can imagine exists. Of a millionaire citizen who decided to invest in a health system. That he could regress in his age. Have you seen this story? That is, he wanted time energy. He wanted to go back in time. He wanted to be like an 18-year-old boy. It seems that now he gave up, fortunately. The method has changed. Changed the method? He did not give up yet. Ah,
he did not give up yet. That is, craziness of this type is a person who lives on the function of energy. Or accumulate money. Or go back in time. So much can that there are people who do. Who live in practice with the same objective as a plant. An animal. Basically animals in general. What is their motivation? Survive and perpetuate the species. Two instincts. Survival and perpetuation of the species. Can a human being live on these things too? So much so that there are people who do. They live on the head. You will see that
most of the goals of life dreams are to survive with the greatest possible comfort. And procreate with the greatest possible pleasure. And to be finite. It is the goal of most of humanity. It is an animal goal. It is not human. And we can. What is the human goal? If we go back to these classics that talked about the human condition. They said that the human being's goal is to be a complete human being. With values, virtues and wisdom. If we want to build ourselves as a being with values, virtues and wisdom. It gives. We
can. We have this possibility. And Pico de la Mirandola went further. He said that if you want to see the purity of angels. You can. At a level of purity such that it does not want anything selfish. That your life is purely pure. That you work purely for the good of the whole. For the good of the other. If you want to do a lot, you can. If you want to reach such a point of elevation of consciousness. According to several traditions. That you get to merge with the divine. They say that even this the
human being can. That is, in the field of being. The human being is one of the most admirable beings in nature. He can everything. As long as he has a directed will. And a discipline to work in this direction. He can everything. Anything. This field is tremendously wide. And it is exactly the field where in general we do not work. We leave him aside. We stay in the field of doing. In the field of having. In the field of going and coming back. Then we have great possibilities. If you told me, it's a sensational man.
That reached a level out of the ordinary. I will find in history one for you. A man who reached the level of correction, integrity, honesty. Very good. I will find in history one for you. A man who lived made a stone. I did not move. I will find. We find all these examples. Although some are more common than others. The truth is that we find all these examples. There have been men and there are men. Who live according to some of these goals. That is, if someone lives, it is because he gives. We have a
freedom of choice. A very big choice in the field of being. What would be the ideal choice for us at this moment? Choose to be human, really. Even to ambition something after that. The first thing you have to choose is to be human. Imagine you ask a child. What do you want to be when you grow up? And she will be educated to answer. I want to be a real human being. That would be the right answer. We should be educated. We have to educate our children to want to be human. The rest is secondary.
Because being human, what they do will be well done. It will be what is appropriate for a human being. What they do will be ethical, will be fair, will be good. Because everything else is given by accrescence. When you need to seek your kingdom first. That is, your place in nature. Everything else is given by accrescence. Imagine how interesting it would be. Imagine how interesting a society would be. Do you understand this idea? We have a series of concepts, people. A series of concepts, convictions, of maxims within society. That are the counter to this premise.
I want to be a real human being. Sometimes I really like to look at certain popular maxims. Popular quotes. Have you ever seen, for example, a sentence that says. Crime does not pay. What do you think of this sentence? If it compensates, we would do it. It's not a matter of ethics. Because I'm a good human being. I don't do it because it doesn't pay. But if someone proves to me that it pays. That it gives a damn profit. I do it. Why not? That other sentence that says. If you do good, you will receive
twice as much. What do you think of this sentence? It's the best investment in the capital market. 100% return. So I do well because there is a return out of the ordinary. There is no investment that I guarantee that gave such a thing. 100% return is an excellent business. So I do well because of that. Do you realize that we have a lot of stupid maxims within society? That we take seriously? That we don't know that we are here to love the good for what we are. It's not for nothing. It's not for any compensation.
It's not for anything else. I remember a very special situation in my life. I was 18 years old. I had just started driving. And like everyone who starts driving. It's a disaster to drive. A horrible thing. And I lived there with that damn fear of hitting the car. To cause an accident. I remember that one day I came to my father and said. Dad, if I hit the car. You help me. Dad, you stay on my side. I remember that perfectly. He taking care of his bird cage. He turned to me and said. I don't.
I stay on the side of whoever is right. This was something that at the time I was terribly conflicted. Wow, how come you hit the car and my father doesn't stay on my side? What a father! What a horrible thing! Today I am so proud of his answer. If I hit the car, you stay on my side, right? No way. I stay on the side of whoever is right. See what an interesting thing. What a beautiful thing. I stay on the side of justice. It's the best thing I can do for you. To give you
an example. Isn't that it? See how many stupid concepts we have. Because we don't see that the best thing we can do. It's being human. And being human is ethical. It's good. It's fair. It's fraternal. These maxims. These mistakes. These mistakes we have in society. They are because we don't have a clear goal. And we don't know that we came here to build goodness for ourselves. And not for a reward that comes later. Justice for ourselves. And not for anything that comes later. Our way of seeing the world would be different. If we knew that
we came here to build ourselves. And then we have all this flexibility. We can be anything we want to be. And the best choice is to be a better human being. By your works I will know you. The biblical phrase. Act as if we were already. Imagine a person who has existed historically. Or who has existed in your life. It's good to imagine. Try to imagine a person who was very integral. Very good. Then you are facing a situation in your life. You have to make a choice. Think about how this person would respond. How
a very fair person would solve this problem. What decision would she make? Imagine. And when you have the answer. Try to do exactly that. Even if you are not yet such a fair person. But you start to make a coherent behavior with what you want to be in the future. And a process of transformation begins. A discipline that allows you to sculpt yourself. A very integral man in a situation like this. Would make what decision? What would you do? What would you do? When you ask. You will realize that you know. We know. We have
this notion within us. A very integral man would do such a thing. I start to do the same thing he would do. Because of so much doing it. One day I will be. One day I will be like him. I will see the world like him. There is a stoic philosopher. Who was Epictetus. He said the following. The seeds of greatness that exist within man. They need an image to grow and germinate. If you want to be a real human being. Take the image of a real human being. There was a time in my life.
That I started to try to imagine. What would a wise man be? A good man. An integral man. And I used my imagination to try to think. How would he be in traffic? When I take a ride. How would he be on that day he arrived late at work? How would he be on that day he got wrong in something he did? In other words. In all the circumstances of my daily life. I was imagining. How would a wise man answer? Then I wrote everything down. I wrote in some cards. And stuck it in the
door of my closet. I wanted to look at it. And see a human being. An integral human being. In front of me. That could be a model for me. So that I could build myself. From that. It is very useful. That we do this exercise of imagination. What would an ideal human being be? Integral. Fair. Good. Valuable. And increasingly. Start to introduce these answers to life. That this man would give. In my own life. And go transforming myself. By example. And building myself. By example. Certainly. This is the only work. That nature expects from us.
Because the rest she does alone. Now. Build our own. Build ourselves. She can not do. You know why? Because there is a law. Called free will. That guarantees that we only grow if you want. So nature has to wait for us to grow. By will. She can not force us to grow. She just needs us for that. To build ourselves. The rest she does alone. So through an example. Of a reference. Of an image. We start a process. To insert into our lives. What we would consider as ideal. So. Through an example. Of a reference.
Of an image. We start a process. Of inserting into our lives. What we would consider as ideal. And that is what we do. And that is what we do. We work for our lives. For the purpose of living. To work as an ideal. To work for being truly human. That goal. It is a discipline that cleans old habits and implements new ones. Once I was told something. That I am a professor of study techniques. I am very interested in all these modern discoveries that are made in this area. And once I saw a text. In
quotes. Scientific. That spoke about the creation of habits. And he said. You have to build yourself. As a result of what you have learned. As a result of what you have learned. Thus. You are able to build yourself. I have been teaching you. I have been teaching you. And I have been teaching you. And you have been teaching you. Well. Now. He said that if you practiced something every day for four months of your life, you would tend to have it incorporated as a habit. Imagine that for four months of your life, every day, I
give an X answer to such a circumstance. I be patient in traffic, I wait for people to leave the elevator before entering, I give good morning to people looking into their eyes and really wanting the best for them, I have compassion for those who are in a bad mood, with a messy emotional on a certain day at work, in the family, having compassion, having patience. For four months behaving this way, I would have acquired a habit. Is that true? Because if it is, it's fantastic! Because it's four months. Yes. On top of that, I even
did a discipline that I found very interesting, a course that I built on top of that. Where I put historical phrases for you to read every day. Phrases from the School of Historical Philosophy. Talking about morality, about human postures. To read every day for four months. So that we could imagine the possibility of inserting those teachings into our lives. That is, maybe there are some practices, some disciplines that are not so complicated. Every day practicing a certain thing. There will come a certain moment that is no longer that example that I stuck in the closet.
It's me, this is mine. I take possession. I become like this. Because I want. I assimilate that as a response to my life. The first human being who became whole, just, good, he must have followed an example. He must have followed a reference. But at a certain moment that became his. And another was inspired by him as a reference. And at a certain moment that became his. And so humanity walks. Assimilating humanistic habits. For a matter of discipline. Every day of our life. A practice that I want to assimilate as a characteristic of my personality.
And I'm building, I'm sculpting myself. I brought you a little bit of it. This text of Pico de la Mirandola. The speech about the dignity of man. A very small piece. Just so you have an idea of how beautiful it is. How interesting it is. Look. O supreme liberality of God the Father! O admirable happiness of man! Only he is granted to be what he wants to be. The animals, when they are born, bring with them from the womb everything they will be later. That is, they will be identical to their parents. They can not
be anything else. The celestial beings have always been what they will be forever. To the man born, the father checked seeds of all species. And according to the way each one cultivates them, they will grow in him and give their fruits. It may be passive like a plant. Or violent like a beast. If used as reasoning. Elevate the celestial animal. But if used intellectually. It can be elevated to the category of angel and son of God. That is, if used only as reasoning. He remains an animal. Of another level. Animal motivations. But with reasoning as
a tool. Now, if he starts to use something else. A broader, more comprehensive intelligence. He begins to elevate the category of angel and son of God. And if he continues to be discontent. He will be able to gather himself. Becoming a spirit united with God. The one who is above all things. If he really wants, he can reach unity. He can. There is this possibility within us. To reach unity. And then he concludes. Who will not admire this fascinating chameleon? Isn't that interesting? He says, well, angels can't be anything else. Only angels. They can't decide
to go down. Turn plant, stone, animal, man. No. They have to be what they are. Animals are defined since birth. To be what they are. Man has a huge freedom. A huge possibility of choice. He can build. Choose. Be what he wants to be. If you take a puppy of any animal. You look at your parents. You know exactly how they will be. Sometimes I see within human families. More or less the same thing. Generations repeating themselves. It's a new version of the same thing. Of the same defects. Of the same limitations of the parents.
That is, we are not living an animalized life. We can't go beyond what we receive. We can't build something else. We are repeating the source from where we came from. We are with an animalized life. It is predictable. This is a cyclone child. It will be exactly like him. Why? Why? If we can be anything. We are increasingly limited and predictable. You saw the latest statistic that came out. Saying that ours. Since this statistic began to be recorded. Ours is the first generation. In which children have an IQ lower than parents. Did you see that?
And artificial intelligence is rising. And the human being? Going down. And this is a being rich in possibilities. As we are. We choose to go down. Decrease. Instead of growing. We are a work in construction. And we can change ourselves. We can. We have to feel like being in construction. If I ask you what you are today. You will tell me. I have such a tendency. I like such a thing. I have such a habit. I have ... All this can be changed. In such a way that in ten years. You don't have any of
these things anymore. It's just a matter of will. If you realize that your taste. Your tendency. Your inclination. Doesn't get you closer to an ideal human being. It's not good for your growth. You can change it completely. Even the taste of food. If we want. We change. Isn't that it? We learn to like other things. We can completely transform ourselves. We are malleable beings. And in construction. And we can choose to be human beings. And we can choose to be human beings. Real human beings. Changing all the tendencies that oppose it. That are in our
lives at this moment. Be careful not to freeze things that are temporary. Ah! I am an unorganized person. It's nothing. You are. No human being is disorganized by nature. It is a temporary addiction that can be corrected. Ah! I am an impatient person. It is not. No human being is impatient. It is a temporary addiction that can be corrected. Get back! I treat you in such a way that I already told you about this phrase, Epictetus, the seeds of greatness that live in us need an image to grow and germinate. That's why it's good, Plato
said, it's good that we have heroes, we have references, or in history, in your family, someone who inspires you. Someone who inspires you to be bigger and better. A mirror in which you will be inspired to grow. Use the imagination, as I told you, to try to think how to awaken a better man, how to move, how to feed, how to get out of the environment. When he leaves an environment, the environment gets better or worse than it was before he arrived. There are people who, for having passed through a place, the climate gets better.
People seem to be lighter, they raise consciousness, they feel better because someone else passed by. There are people who, wherever they go, benefit, they leave as if they were in a place where they were born. As if it were a trace of light. This is possible, it is within the human condition. It is possible. Start imagining a human being like that. And start imagining yourself like that. Start seeing yourself acting and living that way. This verse by Cristina Rossetti I find very interesting. I find it beautiful and I will read it to you and explain
to you why it is in this context. The path, the serpent, the mountain, the whole time? Yes, all the time. And the journey of each day, does it take the whole day? From morning to night, my friend. That is, imagine that this dialogue, that this poem puts, of someone asking you, I will have to work to become a better human being, all my life? Go, all my life. And is it always going up? It's always going up. And is it all day? It's all day and night, my friend. Even in dreams. All the time, this
conviction and this will to become a better human being is with you. We should walk with it all the time and all our lives. Ah, this is heavy, it's tiring. It's nothing. This is human nature. There is nothing that is human nature, that is an over-effort that we cannot stand. It is the human capacity of the human being to walk on two legs. And we walk very well. We can move with greater ease. This is nothing so exhausting. Why would it be exhausting to walk always having to take off the collar, wanting to become better?
The path, the serpent, the mountain above, all the time. All the time. From morning to night, my friend. This should be our life. Always. The impulse to make us better human beings. To be, in fact, human. Which is what we came to do here. I put an element in relation to the work environment that I find interesting. Because if you take a person who is integral, who is fair, who is good, what is the company that would not like to have such an employee? It is logical that everyone would dream of having such an employee.
But many times we do not know that to receive such a person, whether in our company, whether in our family, we have to offer conditions for such a person to feel at home, to feel good. Within a sphere of employment, imagine a person whose goal is to become a better and better human being. What kind of professional environment would make this person feel fulfilled? What would I have to do within a company for such a person to run to me and stay? So imagine. People of this type do not motivate themselves to do so. Not
for reward or punishment, but for the social role of the company. Its importance is for the whole. It is no use for you to reach a human being whose goal is to become better and better as a human being and say, come here, if you work well you will earn a reward. For him, this is not exactly the most stimulating thing in the world. But if you say, come here, we are changing the world. He will be interested. Come here, we are adding something very good to people. We are doing a job that can add
to the world. We are doing a job that can add a lot of quality to their lives. He will be interested. This is a call for a human being of this type. And if you want to have human beings of this type, know how to call them. They are called that way. They are attracted by this kind of offer. These are the idealists. The men who want and do not give up on changing the world for a better place. These men demand human authority and humanistic finality. A person who works in a team, human authority,
I always explain this, there are three authorities. Imagine a leader of a work team. The first authority he has to have is intellectual authority, to know the service. Second authority, moral authority, to do together. Third authority, human authority, to consider that the best result of a work process is not simply products and services well done. It is human beings realized in this process. Human beings who grow in this process and realize themselves. Therefore, for a human being of this type, an ideal workplace would be a workplace that considers itself human authority. That helps everyone who
participates in the process grow within this process. Becoming more realized, better as human beings, creating a climate conducive to this. If I want to have an employee like that, I would have to have human authority. I would have to have a humanistic purpose. What else? Who wants the ideal worker must create the appropriate conditions to receive him. And so it is. Within our life, within our family, sometimes the people who come, the people who join our family, it's a son-in-law, it's a daughter-in-law, whoever it is. What is the environment that I generate? What kind of
human being will come according to what I generate? I created my children to be better human beings. I create my family to seek values above all. What are the people who will come to this group? People who love it, who have affinity with it. In the matter of the law of attraction by affinity, those who have this same nature will come. Therefore, our values attract us. The jobs we have, the people who come to us, according to what we elect, as noble, as fair and as good. We can't say that this is a casualty. This
is a law of attraction that works. If I have a company and I want employees of this type, I have to be of this type. And it is this type of law that should rule within this place, within this enterprise. Well, and basically that's what I wanted to bring to you as a reflection. What can we be? We can be anything. Do not. To do there are limitations. To be anything we can not be. But what should we want to be? Humans. That's what is expected of us in the nature scheme. And how do we
do that? By transforming our attitudes, by taking a true human being as a reference. By transforming the attitudes of this human being, which is our reference, as ours. Day by day. The road is a serpent, the mountain is above. All the time. All the time wanting to be with a slightly higher consciousness. All the time wanting to grow as human beings. Put a goal for you. At night, when you sleep, when you go to sleep, before you close your eyes, stop to think. What did I learn today? Because if I want to become a better
human being, every day I have to have some learning. Isn't that it? At least. What did I learn today? What did today teach me? What did I learn to make me a better human being? Review your day until you find some teaching in it. It requires you to use your time to build yourself. Every day a learning. Every day a teaching. I doubt that all day I have nothing to say to you. You were careless. Review your day until you find something that can teach you something that allows you to be a better human being.
When? From morning to night, my friend. Every day. And this is a person who is building himself as a human being. If you want to be human, this is the best option we can have. This is how it is built.
