![]() ![]() It’s a music born out of life’s disappointments that stands on the neck of difficulties with powerful, uplifting melodies people share at get-togethers and barbecues. Samba is “we” music, a collective experience that involves call-and-response singing and dancing in most of its many forms. Happiness and samba go together, and one of the reasons is that both are usually participant affairs. It's a lesson in full engagement-and we always have a blast. I lead a samba dance lesson at my keynote addresses, from work-life balance to motivation and happiness, and employee trainings, even for time management. I'm pretty sure I was mistakenly switched at birth from a Brazilian mother. ![]() "Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future."Īs some of you know, I’m a big fan of Brazilian music and culture. "It's not that we have a short life, but that we waste a lot of it," wrote the Roman philosopher Seneca a couple thousand years ago, an observation that appears in a tiny but thoughtful book, On the Shortness of Life. No, it’s right here, right now, when we can drop the reactions and projections that keep us mired in rumination and tenses we are not in and escape the life postponement rut. They know where both play and the joy that comes from it live-not in some future time when all your problems are solved or you have enough money. ONE OF BRAZIL'S TOP SAMBA composers, Arlindo Cruz, has a great song titled, “There’s Still Time to Be Happy.” It’s a reminder that it’s never too late to shift moods or circumstances, a point driven home in the most colossal way by Brazil’s annual Carnaval, a period of a week to two weeks where Brazilians switch off their myriad problems and work and turn to something that the research says is one of the best tonics for stress and negative emotions: the art of play.Īs I watched Carnaval online over three nights of revelry in Sao Paulo and Rio, it struck me that we could all use a dose of the Brazilian talent for letting go. Polls indicate the leftist former president, who governed between 2003-2010, remains the frontrunner, though his lead has shrunk considerably.Įach candidate focused on the issues that, according to polls, represent their adversary’s weak points: for Bolsonaro, the COVID-19 pandemic that killed 680,000 Brazilians, and for da Silva, corruption scandals involving his Workers’ Party.TURN IT UP! The Sao Clemente samba school show at Carnaval 2017. Bolsonaro frequently said: “You can’t come here to tell people these lies.”Įarlier this month, da Silva, who is universally known as Lula, won the election’s first round with 48% of the vote compared to Bolsonaro’s 43%. You lie every day,” da Silva said during one exchange. The term was used more than a dozen times by each of the candidates in the TV Band debate that, otherwise, was less aggressive than many analysts had expected. ![]() ![]() On Sunday, the two repeatedly called each other liars during an encounter lasting about 1 ½ hours. During the debates, they were largely distractions from the two obvious frontrunners. SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro clashed in their first one-on-one debate Sunday, two weeks before the presidential election’s runoff.ĭebates in the election’s first round featured several other candidates, none of whom garnered more than 5% of the Oct. ![]()
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