Anyone who resents and fights for everything and anything, is the bearer of an inferiority complex. DeRose

I just returned from a season of six weeks in New York. One of the things that impressed me most is that people ask permission, deculpas and say thanks for everything, but for everything.

Near where I stayed (the place where I felt so well that he called home), there was 24 I went to shop for small purchases. As the Christmas season was approaching, they began to sell the trees to be decorated, that there are natural. Were exposed on the outside, occupying a part of the sidewalk, which limited the passage to a person and half a time.

Empire State Building seen from Top of the Rock. Photo: Nilzo Andrade Jr.

Whenever someone shared with me the ride tight, apologized. Not to have touched me or done anything to justify the request. He was upset because, in a certain way, the free path of another. If we were talking in the street, occupying the sidewalk, and someone needs to go in the middle, asked permission or apology. If I turned back and someone was blocking my way (!), Apologize again. If someone needs to have their freight while researching something in the supermarket, asked permission. And the most beautiful, without being subservient. All winning with poise and polite.

Today I went to the market near my home in Curitiba. I live in a neighborhood very well, which means that people who attend this type of establishment are good cultural level. The regulars pushed me, cut the front and blocked the passage. You know how many apologies, and thank you license? No. Lack of education? No, they are individuals who had access to good schools.

When I read an article today DeRose , came an insight. We Brazilians have an inferiority complex. He keeps us from being polished. He makes us aggressive and insolent when walking on the sidewalk, by occupying common places and also while driving. We were colonized and still not got rid of this feeling. For us, apologize, and thank license is an act of kneeling. We are inferior to be polite with people.

Of course there are exceptions, you may think. But it would be nice if the exception was the opposite?

We are at a historic moment in our political and economic projection is leading us to the level of great savings. Next year, we will contribute to raise the average global GDP growth. Studies show that we are a third world economy in 2050. It will be so beautiful if we can be all that the world using the words thank you, excuse me and excuse me.

Excuse me, now I'll eat my rice and beans with French fries . After all, I love this country.

For me, the role of a leader is to show paths. When we all have blurred vision, someone who must have a lucid vision that shows where we should go.

T. Boone Pickens shows us an example of clarity and he has a plan . He is an oil millionaire in the U.S. and is taking a different view on the consumption of fossil fuel that will one day end. In a video of 4 min , suggests that they begin to use wind power and does so in a very simple way, alternating white board, maps and slides in your presentation.

He could even sit idly by or would need to do anything (after all, is a billionaire), but is giving an example of leadership and taking action.