Life is a struggle,
but that's not the problem.
The problem is when the struggle feels pointless with no end in sight.
It's the feeling that you're just forcing one piece of the puzzle after another,
with no idea what the big picture even looks like.
You're successful, but success has come at the expense of a deeper meaning.
You're running on scripts that don't feel yours,
just reacting to what life throws at you.
I get it.
You feel overworked, burnt out, overwhelmed, or maybe just stuck.
My entire life was a struggle I didn't understand.
For years, I did what was expected of me.
But every milestone I reached came with the same looping pattern:
A brief satisfaction,
followed by a cynical "so what?" and an anxious "what now?"
I felt like I was just surviving –
doing everything, meaning nothing.
I was living with the pieces
without the ability to see the bigger picture.
Then, my wife Christina got pregnant.
I was going to be a father.
And the "what now?" became a pressing question I couldn't ignore.
My father had brought from necessity to survival – soaked in self-sacrifice.
I couldn't pass on the same script to my daughter.
Or what would I have built?
Within a month,
we left a seven-figure future in Angola behind
with no backup plan, no alternative income,
and a child on the way.
It was terrifying,
but necessary for me.
In that stillness,
I found my calling.
What I discovered wasn't another framework or system.
It was a way to finally see the bigger picture I'd been building toward –
and to align everything with it.
I'm not a guru.
I'm a father who had no choice but to find his own path.
My path required leaving everything behind.
Yours probably doesn't.
Most people don't need to leave –
they need to see clearly what they're actually building.
This work isn't about changing your circumstances.
It's about changing what you see when you look at them.
This work sits at the intersection of who you are and what you build.
It's practical and philosophical.
Grounded and transformative.
If this resonates, there are two ways forward:
Explore the ideas first:
The essays show you how I see Genius, Mastery, and Integration (available in English and Portuguese):
→ What My Daughter Taught Me Before She Was Born: This is my story in full, and the foundation from which all this started.
→ What Genius Actually is (And Why We Forgot): The unpacking of a word we all admire, but few truly understand.
→ Mastery is a River: How to stop damming yourself up and remember you're meant to flow.