By Eden Antonio
É um prazer! O seu artigo é incrivelmente poderoso e, com certeza, terá um grande impacto em inglês.
Vou traduzir o texto, mantendo a intensidade, a linguagem figurada (“Hacker of the Soul,” “Industrial Saboteur of Ourselves”) e a estrutura persuasiva.
Aqui está a tradução integral para o Inglês:
🦁 The Forgotten Roar: How to Emerge from the Dark Night of the Soul and Reclaim Your Destiny
“The Industrial Saboteur of Ourselves: An Analysis of Personal Crisis and the Non-Negotiable Journey to Victory”
If you have lost money, a job, your great love, given up a dream, or, in the worst-case scenario, lost someone very special, you are likely feeling low. There is no shame in acknowledging this paralysis. Pain, in its rawest form, is the confirmation that you have loved, fought, and invested. But there is a subtle and devastating danger lurking in this vulnerability.
I. The Silent Betrayal: The Hacker of the Soul
In this state, sadness is not just a feeling; it acts like a calculating bandit. It seeks the perfect target on the right day and at the best time—the day of vulnerability, when we drop our guard. It’s the day when our heart, in despair, cries out: “Why me, GOD? WHY ME?”
In this exact moment when no one can help us, despair finds a place and embraces the soul. Despair is a terrible hacker that embeds itself in us, becoming a dark reflection of our own mind. It speaks softly, suggesting what every defeated person wants to hear—the cheap, worldly logic of surrender:
“Rest. You don’t need to change. Accept it. The world is in crisis, and you are not the one who will change that. Take care of yourself first; let others think about themselves.”
And so, softly and full of false justifications, we go to sleep, pretending everything is fine, when it is not. It is in this environment that our Imposter Inside is born and manifests. It holds us hostage, but we are not innocent, for it is our silent acceptance that feeds it.
The Lion Who Forgot Its Roar
Like the lion that forgot its roar, we give up on our dreams. We stop fighting for what truly matters. When we become lost within ourselves, give up on our dream, and stop living for a greater purpose, what psychologists call a personality deviation occurs.
Then comes fear, and with it, all the ropes of logical reason. Reason, devoid of faith and courage, becomes just an excuse for inaction. And it is in this environment that we become the Industrial Saboteur of Ourselves. The result is a weary soul.
I understand that living well demands courage and great sacrifices. Many have tried and failed in their journeys of liberation—be it financial, emotional, or spiritual. Brilliant human beings with expertise in their market niches now live dependent on luck and the goodwill of friends and family, or, in first-world countries, rely on a government subsidy.
But they become part of the statistics of the discontented, those who did everything and did not win. Penniless and unmotivated, sick with depression, they feel lost and directionless, abandoned to their own fate, and do everything to survive. Thus begins the journey of the wretched: in the worst-case scenario, some live on the streets, others sell drugs, many choose prostitution, and others sell their soul to the devil. The fall is painful, but the acceptance of the fall is the final tragedy.
II. The Call of Nonconformity: The Refusal to Be Vanquished
If you are a self-made entrepreneur, a nonconformist, a stubborn person, or perhaps someone who simply refuses to be a loser because something inside you screams that you can no longer live the same way… this is a matter of honour and self-pride.
You know that life will never be the same for you. Some of us will have to travel a journey of faith to reach the podium, and this demands courage and sacrifice to conquer and access the knowledge and wisdom of GOD, or a Greater Purpose that transcends us.
To transform pain into power, one must drink from the source of those who made adversity their battleground. Men and women who faced despair on immeasurable scales and, nonetheless, emerged as giants.
How did they do it? They activated a pattern of behaviour that transforms loss into a non-negotiable legacy.
III. The Pattern of Giants: Five Pillars for the New Beginning
Leaders like Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Charity Adams Earley, and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were not defined by the magnitude of their losses, but by the magnitude of their response.
1. Unwavering Focus on Purpose (The Compass)
They had a goal greater than the pain of the moment. Their objective was larger than themselves.
- Lincoln’s Example: Amid the Civil War and personal grief (losing a child), Lincoln did not deviate from the goal of Union and Abolition. His persistence was not blind stubbornness, but the ability to maintain focus on the final objective, even if he had to readapt the means constantly.
- Lesson for You: What is your purpose? It must be so great that it makes your current crisis a mere temporary obstacle. Define it, write it down, and return to it every day. Your goal must be the lighthouse that illuminates the darkness, not the fragile candle that the wind can extinguish.
2. Non-Cooperation with Humiliation (The Shield)
Gandhi called this Ahimsa (Non-Violence). The first principle of non-violent action is non-cooperation with any form of humiliation. He refused to accept the humiliation of the British Empire, and he did so with dignity and persistence.
- Lesson for You: Your Imposter Inside is your greatest humiliation. It convinces you to surrender to mediocrity, to the vice of inaction. You need to stop cooperating with the soft voice of despair that tells you to accept less. Refuse to humiliate yourself before your crisis. Your first act of war is against your own discouragement.
3. Leadership That Inspires Dignity (The Ubuntu Spirit)
Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison, but he did not emerge bitter; he emerged determined to heal. He transformed former oppressors into partners. He embodied the spirit of Ubuntu (“I am because we are”).
- Lesson for You: Cultivate a deep sense of admiration for human beings, including yourself. Treat yourself and those around you with the dignity you demand from life. Despair is fought by inspiring the courage and talents of others. The leader who emerges from loss is the one who can transform trauma into a story of reconciliation and strength. Do not isolate yourself; use your pain to connect and inspire.
4. Resilience That Sharpens Character (The Forge)
Colonel Charity Adams Earley and the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion—the only contingent of Black women to serve overseas during World War II—faced the dual struggle of racism and the mission to clear millions of pieces of backlogged mail in Birmingham.
- Adams’s Example: She knew that “the eyes of the public would be upon us, waiting for one slip.” She did not allow a slip. They delivered 195,000 pieces of mail per day. Their excellence and unquestionable discipline were their greatest weapon against segregation.
- Lesson for You: Adversity and loss are not a signal for you to be less; they are the forge for you to be more. When the world expects you to fall, your unquestionable performance is your greatest act of rebellion. Use the opposition to sharpen your determination, not to undermine it.
5. Greatness in Small Things (Radical Service)
Mother Teresa of Calcutta gave us the formula for universal impact: “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” The greatest disease in the West, she said, is “being unwanted, unloved, and abandoned.”
- Lesson for You: If you feel lost, start with service. Obsessive focus on your own pain paralyzes you. Focus on service to your neighbour (or your mission, however small) frees you. Don’t wait for leaders. Don’t wait for the great opportunity. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have, and put great love into it. Faith is expressed in concrete actions.
IV. The Turning Point: Reclaiming Your Roar
Grief, loss, and failure are inevitable in the human journey. But they are not your final destination. The path to the podium demands that you stop being the Industrial Saboteur of Yourself.
The weary soul recovers with purpose, not with rest.
For you, who refuse to be vanquished, the journey of faith is your non-negotiable path:
- Acknowledge the Pain, But Do Not Worship It: Embrace the sadness, but rise with the courage of a warrior. There are no shortcuts.
- Sacrifice the Habit of Inaction: Liberation requires the sacrifice of old habits and beliefs that are slowly killing you. Start today, with a single step.
- Use Faith as an Anchor: The Wisdom of GOD (or the Higher Purpose) is not an escape, but your anchor in the storm. It is the certainty that today’s pain will be the foundation of your legacy tomorrow.
You are a nonconformist. The inner scream that refuses to live “more of the same way” is the foreshadowing of your roar. Use the crisis to expand your capacity to be, to serve, and to win.
The world doesn’t need more people who have given up. The world needs lions who, after being wounded, rise up, roar louder, and refuse to accept anything less than victory.
Your life continues. Your mission awaits. Go and Fight. My prÉ um prazer! O seu artigo é incrivelmente poderoso e, com certeza, terá um grande impacto em inglês.
Vou traduzir o texto, mantendo a intensidade, a linguagem figurada (“Hacker of the Soul,” “Industrial Saboteur of Ourselves”) e a estrutura persuasiva.
Aqui está a tradução integral para o Inglês:
🦁 The Forgotten Roar: How to Emerge from the Dark Night of the Soul and Reclaim Your Destiny
“The Industrial Saboteur of Ourselves: An Analysis of Personal Crisis and the Non-Negotiable Journey to Victory”
If you have lost money, a job, your great love, given up a dream, or, in the worst-case scenario, lost someone very special, you are likely feeling low. There is no shame in acknowledging this paralysis. Pain, in its rawest form, is the confirmation that you have loved, fought, and invested. But there is a subtle and devastating danger lurking in this vulnerability.
I. The Silent Betrayal: The Hacker of the Soul
In this state, sadness is not just a feeling; it acts like a calculating bandit. It seeks the perfect target on the right day and at the best time—the day of vulnerability, when we drop our guard. It’s the day when our heart, in despair, cries out: “Why me, GOD? WHY ME?”
In this exact moment when no one can help us, despair finds a place and embraces the soul. Despair is a terrible hacker that embeds itself in us, becoming a dark reflection of our own mind. It speaks softly, suggesting what every defeated person wants to hear—the cheap, worldly logic of surrender:
“Rest. You don’t need to change. Accept it. The world is in crisis, and you are not the one who will change that. Take care of yourself first; let others think about themselves.”
And so, softly and full of false justifications, we go to sleep, pretending everything is fine, when it is not. It is in this environment that our Imposter Inside is born and manifests. It holds us hostage, but we are not innocent, for it is our silent acceptance that feeds it.
The Lion Who Forgot Its Roar
Like the lion that forgot its roar, we give up on our dreams. We stop fighting for what truly matters. When we become lost within ourselves, give up on our dream, and stop living for a greater purpose, what psychologists call a personality deviation occurs.
Then comes fear, and with it, all the ropes of logical reason. Reason, devoid of faith and courage, becomes just an excuse for inaction. And it is in this environment that we become the Industrial Saboteur of Ourselves. The result is a weary soul.
I understand that living well demands courage and great sacrifices. Many have tried and failed in their journeys of liberation—be it financial, emotional, or spiritual. Brilliant human beings with expertise in their market niches now live dependent on luck and the goodwill of friends and family, or, in first-world countries, rely on a government subsidy.
But they become part of the statistics of the discontented, those who did everything and did not win. Penniless and unmotivated, sick with depression, they feel lost and directionless, abandoned to their own fate, and do everything to survive. Thus begins the journey of the wretched: in the worst-case scenario, some live on the streets, others sell drugs, many choose prostitution, and others sell their soul to the devil. The fall is painful, but the acceptance of the fall is the final tragedy.
II. The Call of Nonconformity: The Refusal to Be Vanquished
If you are a self-made entrepreneur, a nonconformist, a stubborn person, or perhaps someone who simply refuses to be a loser because something inside you screams that you can no longer live the same way… this is a matter of honour and self-pride.
You know that life will never be the same for you. Some of us will have to travel a journey of faith to reach the podium, and this demands courage and sacrifice to conquer and access the knowledge and wisdom of GOD, or a Greater Purpose that transcends us.
To transform pain into power, one must drink from the source of those who made adversity their battleground. Men and women who faced despair on immeasurable scales and, nonetheless, emerged as giants.
How did they do it? They activated a pattern of behaviour that transforms loss into a non-negotiable legacy.
III. The Pattern of Giants: Five Pillars for the New Beginning
Leaders like Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Charity Adams Earley, and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were not defined by the magnitude of their losses, but by the magnitude of their response.
1. Unwavering Focus on Purpose (The Compass)
They had a goal greater than the pain of the moment. Their objective was larger than themselves.
- Lincoln’s Example: Amid the Civil War and personal grief (losing a child), Lincoln did not deviate from the goal of Union and Abolition. His persistence was not blind stubbornness, but the ability to maintain focus on the final objective, even if he had to readapt the means constantly.
- Lesson for You: What is your purpose? It must be so great that it makes your current crisis a mere temporary obstacle. Define it, write it down, and return to it every day. Your goal must be the lighthouse that illuminates the darkness, not the fragile candle that the wind can extinguish.
2. Non-Cooperation with Humiliation (The Shield)
Gandhi called this Ahimsa (Non-Violence). The first principle of non-violent action is non-cooperation with any form of humiliation. He refused to accept the humiliation of the British Empire, and he did so with dignity and persistence.
- Lesson for You: Your Imposter Inside is your greatest humiliation. It convinces you to surrender to mediocrity, to the vice of inaction. You need to stop cooperating with the soft voice of despair that tells you to accept less. Refuse to humiliate yourself before your crisis. Your first act of war is against your own discouragement.
3. Leadership That Inspires Dignity (The Ubuntu Spirit)
Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison, but he did not emerge bitter; he emerged determined to heal. He transformed former oppressors into partners. He embodied the spirit of Ubuntu (“I am because we are”).
- Lesson for You: Cultivate a deep sense of admiration for human beings, including yourself. Treat yourself and those around you with the dignity you demand from life. Despair is fought by inspiring the courage and talents of others. The leader who emerges from loss is the one who can transform trauma into a story of reconciliation and strength. Do not isolate yourself; use your pain to connect and inspire.
4. Resilience That Sharpens Character (The Forge)
Colonel Charity Adams Earley and the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion—the only contingent of Black women to serve overseas during World War II—faced the dual struggle of racism and the mission to clear millions of pieces of backlogged mail in Birmingham.
- Adams’s Example: She knew that “the eyes of the public would be upon us, waiting for one slip.” She did not allow a slip. They delivered 195,000 pieces of mail per day. Their excellence and unquestionable discipline were their greatest weapon against segregation.
- Lesson for You: Adversity and loss are not a signal for you to be less; they are the forge for you to be more. When the world expects you to fall, your unquestionable performance is your greatest act of rebellion. Use the opposition to sharpen your determination, not to undermine it.
5. Greatness in Small Things (Radical Service)
Mother Teresa of Calcutta gave us the formula for universal impact: “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” The greatest disease in the West, she said, is “being unwanted, unloved, and abandoned.”
- Lesson for You: If you feel lost, start with service. Obsessive focus on your own pain paralyzes you. Focus on service to your neighbour (or your mission, however small) frees you. Don’t wait for leaders. Don’t wait for the great opportunity. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have, and put great love into it. Faith is expressed in concrete actions.
IV. The Turning Point: Reclaiming Your Roar
Grief, loss, and failure are inevitable in the human journey. But they are not your final destination. The path to the podium demands that you stop being the Industrial Saboteur of Yourself.
The weary soul recovers with purpose, not with rest.
For you, who refuse to be vanquished, the journey of faith is your non-negotiable path:
- Acknowledge the Pain, But Do Not Worship It: Embrace the sadness, but rise with the courage of a warrior. There are no shortcuts.
- Sacrifice the Habit of Inaction: Liberation requires the sacrifice of old habits and beliefs that are slowly killing you. Start today, with a single step.
- Use Faith as an Anchor: The Wisdom of GOD (or the Higher Purpose) is not an escape, but your anchor in the storm. It is the certainty that today’s pain will be the foundation of your legacy tomorrow.
You are a nonconformist. The inner scream that refuses to live “more of the same way” is the foreshadowing of your roar. Use the crisis to expand your capacity to be, to serve, and to win.
The world doesn’t need more people who have given up. The world needs lions who, after being wounded, rise up, roar louder, and refuse to accept anything less than victory.
Your life continues. Your mission awaits. Go and Fight.
In words of Robin Sharma – the wisest ones never chase success. They grow into it… quietly, steadily, gracefully by becoming the kind of leader, creator and human being the world most needs. Yes, this is my prayer for you.
You’re feeling down… not a successful leader and entrepreneur and are ready to dramatically grow your business while taking more time off. But above all you want radically change your life… need to decide or take a very important decision… I am here to motivate you and help you to take the best decisions. You are not alone.