Personality

Immigration is more than just changing your address – it’s a full restart of your life. A new school, new language, new friends, new habits, and even a new daily rhythm. While adults somehow manage through work and household routines, children often experience change more acutely: through mood swings, fatigue, or withdrawal. One of the gentlest and most natural ways to help a child regain confidence and joy is through sports.

Immigration is a marathon, not a sprint. Integration into a new culture, language, and rhythm of life takes time, support, and energy. And, surprisingly, sport often becomes the shortest path to integration. It doesn't require perfect Portuguese, doesn't divide people into "us" and "them"; on the contrary, it unites people through movement, emotions, and common goals.

Have you ever had one of those Sundays where you look back and think, "What did I even do today?" You were busy the whole time, but accomplished nothing you cared about. Instead, you reorganized your sock drawer and somehow spent forty minutes arguing with strangers on the internet about whether hot dogs are sandwiches.

Immigration and rock climbing teach the same thing: you're afraid all the time, but you keep moving forward anyway.

We all know what procrastination feels like. But there’s a simple time-management technique that has helped students, professionals, and creatives around the world stay focused for decades: the Pomodoro Technique.

It’s a worry many share — if we hand over too much thinking to machines, do we risk losing our own?

When I was a small boy growing up in North Carolina, my great-grandmother gifted me a globe.  I spent endless hours staring at every single country, at regions, oceans, and all the exotic names that were abstractions to a young boy’s eyes.

Moving to another country is always a challenge. New language, new rules, new you. But you know what's the most important thing about this transformation? Not credentials or skills. It's how you think. That's what Carol Dweck's book Flexible Mindset is all about - a modern psychology classic that can be your compass in any life change.