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Personal Notes on Professional Path<\/font><\/h3>\n

 
\nEarly in life I discovered the sacred pleasure of grasping the inner-simplicity of life aspects within their apparent form-complexity. And, with this, the joyful and ego-deprived act of teaching. As the unfold of our potential requires an increasing awareness to tune our capabilities and to free ourselves from limitations, I spent my last years, as an academic, professor and business analyst, learning two major lessons. First, the understanding of my own myopia (as the act of teaching encloses a significant responsibility requiring minimum undesirable projections) and of my life purpose. This encompassed a period, in 2010 and 2011, where I had the lucky opportunity to dissolve a system of believes through a deep process of disillusion, fear processing and awakening.<\/p>\n

Second, the listening, understanding, respect and consideration for the singular matrix of motivations and learning needs of each individual. Being aware of the multiple signatures and learning-patterns can promote: unlimited-simplicity of the teachings, critical unfolding of their full-implications, a customized provision of complementary pointers and perspectives, and, most importantly, novel tutoring approaches that potentiate individuals abilities, self-knowledge and empowerment (which let them neutrally and confidently see their learning obstacles). Citing an old though of mine: “educar significa para mim, como professor e aluno, desconstruir. Desconstruir o conhecimento legado e redesenh\u00e1-lo com simplicidade, coer\u00eancia e consist\u00eancia, adaptando-o ao nosso modo individual de interpretar a realidade, integrando-o com saberes anteriores”.<\/p>\n

Recently I found that my increasing passion for research is, in essence, closely linked to my teaching savor. Has I stated in a letter to my scientific coordinator: “investigar \u00e9 tamb\u00e9m ensinar, \u00e9 aprofundar, abstrair, relaxar, intuir, edificar, simplificar e comunicar. A via acad\u00e9mica \u00e9, para mim, uma das poucas vias onde a liberdade de criar n\u00e3o \u00e9 condicionada pela obriga\u00e7\u00e3o de satisfazer um cliente ou a pr\u00f3pria entidade empregadora. Esta evid\u00eancia tornou-se clara ap\u00f3s um ano de intensa aprendizagem num meio empresarial de excel\u00eancia. O caminho do ensino, da investiga\u00e7\u00e3o, \u00e9 o caminho que pretendo seguir”.<\/p>\n

I had, additionally, discovered some of my old thoughts on engineering, that I would like to share with you: “O que \u00e9 a engenharia?<\/em> questionou o jovem rapaz. Atordoado pela pergunta, respondi-lhe que \u00e9 a capacidade de simplificar aquilo que \u00e9 complexo, de abstrair em linguagem pr\u00f3pria o mundo que nos rodeia. Todos n\u00f3s somos engenheiros. Falei-lhe, primeiramente, nos sistemas biol\u00f3gicos que compreendem as part\u00edculas elementares e o universo que conhecemos, nos sistemas mec\u00e2nicos e nos sistemas digitais. E, impulsionado pelo meu foco de trabalho actual, expliquei a necessidade da engenharia no sistema-sociedade para definir e aplicar princ\u00edpios de desenho aos diversos sistemas que o comp\u00f5em por forma a garantir o seu funcionamento unificado. O professor que tamb\u00e9m ali se encontrava piscou-lhe o olho e sorriu …e tenho a certeza de que ser\u00e1s um grande engenheiro!<\/em>. O jovem rapaz problematizara a realidade. Acompanhei os seus passos leves ao afastar-se, entregando-se provavelmente a elevados pensamentos. Orquestrando, quem sabe, um novo e desafiante universo de ideias”.<\/p>\n

I was once that little boy, full of questions and dreams. Thankfully, I chose a path that led me towards where I am standing now. During this path, a significant amount of support, dedication and clear-intention granted me the privilege of receiving some honors<\/a>. I love my team<\/a>, and what I do<\/a> professionally. But to find this balance, I had previously to rescue: the humility to understand that my personal traits and life-purpose were not compliant with two sequent jobs (2009-2011) and, most of all, the sincerity and respect to myself to say ‘no’ and to rediscover my place on Earth.<\/p>\n

September 2011,
\nRui
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