Guru of Gadgets

     One of my professors of WESL asked me to do a research paper about one person that I wanted to choose. So, looking for the options, I chose onde person which would had influence in my major. So I chose Akio Morita, co-fouder of SONY. I didn't know him yet, so I started my research looking for his life and somethings that he did. I found many books, journals and articles which told me many things about him. So I discovered that he was one of the most important managers of the world and it makes me happy, because he had a lot of influences in my field, Management Engineering.
     The struggle for the creation of SONY showed me great dedication and courage by Akio Morita. He was a man who had specific characteristics, like his ideas and dedication in marketing. Furthermore, he learned with his mistakes and studied the problems encountered, always looking for a solution to resolve them. His persistence of goals and constancy of purpose marked the course of the company in the early years, besides the challenges of innovative products faced forward a highly competitive market. In conclusion, his lessons go through decades and still valid for companies and leaders who seek success and competitiveness. 

Desires of Consciousness

This week I was talking with my friend about the meaning of dreams. She is a psychology student and told me that she has done a discipline that studies our subconscious. I was talking to her about things that I used to dream since I came to US. In many days on my dreams I used to eat something like beans, drive a car or talk with people that I really miss, like my family and my friends.

She told me that our dreams are the wishes of our subconscious, something that we really want, miss or feel. I agree with her, because I have been dreaming about things that was part of my daily life and here in US I can't have them. 

Freud was one of the great researchers about dreams. He explained an important concept: when you sleep your subconscious mind awakens. And when we wake up, wake up the conscious mind and the subconscious falls asleep. He also found that during the dream all our frustrated desires, emotions, thoughts that were not released during the day are released by our unconscious mind. These are our dreams according to Freud. 

So, despite I'm missing many things, I think that my dreams can bring me good memories and make me closer to people that I love, even for a few minutes or hours. It can gives me strength to continue chasing my goals here in the US.

   Learning about the meaning of Thanksgivin

      Since I came to US, I wanted to know what Thanksgiving means for american people, because I always heard they talking about it. Many brazilians friends, who already lived in US, told to me that american Thanksgiving is as important as brazilian Christmas. So I decide to look for the meaning of this important date.
  According to the article “Thanksgiving History” by William Bradford, Thanksgiving is an american special holliday witch was founded by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag. They always used to give thanks for the Creator’s gifts, but in 1621, after a year of sickness and scarcity, they had a bountiful harvest. So they decide to celebrate and thanks God with feasting and sport witch expressed their happiness and gratitude. Many years after, presidents Washington, Adams and Monroe proclaimed national Thanksgivings, but just in 1941 the holiday was established as the fourth Thursday in November. Today, it is a Holiday in witch everybody returns to their house to see and get together their family and friends to eat roasted turkey with stuffing and pumpkin pie. This holiday express american gratitude at the heart of all this feasting, prayerful thanks, recreation and nostalgia.

   After read this article I could agree with my friends who compared Brazilian Christmas with american Thanksgiven. Not only our Christmas, but also their Thanksgiven can connect family and friends in a big dinner, thanks for all the good things that happened in our lifes.