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[Rui Gabriel]: Hi, in this second video we'll address the issue of crisis, the so-called crisis.
Indeed, crisis always has two sides: the side of eople who complain and the side of people who do something to solve the problems they have.
And then I hope you're on the right side of the crisis, as we are
that you are at the side of people who are doing something to seize the opportunities that the crisis bring.
I'd like to ask Silvio Fortunato what he thinks about this, because he's a specialist in crisis
in changes, and then I think what he has to say is very important.
[Sílvio Fortunato]: We must have the ability ... sometimes to reshape our lives several times and I have enough experience.
It is said, while somebody cry others sell tissues, so that's exactly what you were saying.
The crisis in Chinese means opportunity and therefore we need is to be on the right side of the crisis, and this is sometimes more easy to say than to do
is pretty much made words and platitudes, but we really have this notion.
And crisis are more than the changes, and the greater the crisis major changes are mandatory.
Today one of the biggest changes is precisely the speed of change, things change now to a truly amazing pace
and because things change very quickly, usually people who have difficulty in following this change
and have their life made so they can adapt to this change with relative ease, it is never easy to change, we ...
is normal for human beings to resist to the change, but if we don't have our lives structured
in order to have sufficient flexibility to change, the crisis comes really quickly.
So, today, increasingly, and that's what we try to teach in these videos, we must achieve models of income
business models that have this flexibility and we can adapt.
And today we live in these major changes, there are many people who really have great theories about it
mine can't go from being a theory but an overview of some ideas.
One of the major changes is that today ... there are some talking about globalization, are manifestations, figths ... because of globalization, against ...
try that kind ... the TGV, nor is it a train is a TGV coming from the front and they put themselves heroically in the line trying to stop the train, it is not ...!
So there's this way of seeing things, and there is another way to understand the changes and try to make these changes and see where the opportunities arose.
And one of the biggest changes with this globalization is that businesses that rely on hand labor are being moved.
This is not just here in Portugal, it happens in all countries.
He saw a lot ... many companies left Portugal to go to the eastern countries, and countries such as China, India, the eastern countries, etc..
they have the manpower actually much cheaper, and companies ..., that have no other way to survive in the market if companies
and much of its core lies in the fact that manpower, have no other choice but to move to where there is such a cheaper manpower.
[Rui Gabriel]: There is one interesting thing about it, we all like to have the cheap products at the supermarket or clothing store or elsewhere
but we want people who make these products make a lot of money.
Now there are two things that do not work: either people who work there earn much money, it makes the products more expensive
or have the cheapest products, and these people have to earn less money.
So, because many companies have relocated to place in our ... at our reach cheaper products.
Of course we can complain about it, isn't it, we have every right to complain about it and try to find alternatives
but really this is a game where everything has consequences, isn't it ...
[Sílvio Fortunato]: So the changes that happened here a few decades ago in most developed countries in industry, etc..
is happening in these countries, China, etc.. which is to take people out of villages to cities, build entire cities almost from scratch
and therefore this whole revolution that is happening in these countries have already happened to us long ago.
What happens? One opportunity is to provide ... the Americans call them "commodities" from cement, brick, etc..
all this, all these goods and services that are now needed to be there, so are the people who are now adapting to it.
But what happens? Basically there will be a great mass of people to be unemployed, to have their way of life
to have a survival model or revenue applied in manpower, they will be a mass that will have to change your way of earning money
their way of thinking to other forms, ie, not worth it to be regretted, and of course ... and today there is one thing to say, it's barbaric ...
a person with forty years and if she become unemployed in today labor market has passed the expiration date, isn't it ... we have passed the expiration date ...
So for example I do not have so large studies, I decided then, when I was finishing the eleventh year, do not even have the twelfth year
was to study for physical education because there were fewer subjects to study ...
well, but then had to became a teacher, sorry teachers, it is no discredit, but didn't seduced me that life to walk with the house in a backpack for years
do not seduced me the life as a teacher, and I did not have enough studies to, maybe, get a job
and therefore always in my head I thought I had to get my own job, or had to be master of my own ...
my own business model, and therefore I was never unemployed, you know, and was one of the differences.
So today this human mass of people growing in these countries is desperately seeking alternatives.
[Rui Gabriel]: In these countries we are talking about Portugal, for example.
[Sílvio Fortunato]: Portugal for example, in countries where this mass of people who work in factories moves to other countries, and these people rest unemployed
is not, and what happens is that these people will try to manufacture, because that's what they know to do, but these manufacturing jobs are becoming less
and increasingly there is more competition to the same places, isn't it, then these people instead of seeking, and because they have expertise in manufacturing
must begin to adapt, have to learn new things, new ... new specialties.
One thing that gets me a lot of confusion is when I approach someone and she says "oh I can not do that."
The not knowing how to do this, mentally is the first ... is the first hint of disaster, isn't it ...!?
[Rui Gabriel]: Sure! I mean, nobody is born taught, isn't it, but one thing is to have the attitude "I do not know, I don't do it," another thing is "I do not know, I'll learn"
these are two mental attitudes completely different and makes the difference between a successful person and a person without success.
[Sílvio Fortunato]: And the person who passed ... this is an exaggeration, but the person who has spent a lifetime to tighten a screw is hard to move on to new levels
but must, increasingly, actualy we live now in a world of information, on the one hand we have the difficulty, but it's like the glass half full half empty, isn't it?
we can look both ways on the one hand we have the difficulty that we are living in an age of information, while these countries entered the era of manufacturing
we got out of that era to the era of information, ie, there is room for us, of course, there is another kind of work, and people have to realize that.
So we're in the information age, and has never been easier to access this information over the Internet ... Now, who's gonna win the game?
Those who adapt, who thirst to learn, have to be constantly with the thirst for learning, and that thing of "I do not know"
so when she says she has to think twice: do not know but I want to learn.
So, because there are so many people needing for something, if you know this thing
and if you can guide that person in that thing you really have a great opportunity.
[Rui Gabriel]: I find very interesting the history about the state of crisis, all people I know, even on television everybody is talking about the crisis
and I realize that my business on the Internet have increased significantly.
This leads me to believe that there are ways of doing things, such as Silvio was saying, I can not agree more, there are different ways of doing things
doing things the same old way, obviously produces the same results as always.
It is interesting we fight for what we have achieved the objectives we have achieved, we fight to keep them, that's good, there's nothing wrong with that
but it is also good to be smart and try to join what we already have TO something extra to help us then to deal better with situations
holding up better with this crisis.
So I can not agree more, the purpose of gathering this to other stuff.
In the next video, we'll talk about how we can create multiple sources of income
and not be dependent solely on our salary, or our work or our job.
[Sílvio Fortunato]: Don't put all eggs in one basket, basically this is what we'll teach.