Placebo and Resistance: What Capoeira Teaches Us About Mindset
What if belief alone could change your performance — in the roda and in life? In this episode, we explore the power of belief through the lens of the...
Capoeira and the Digital Immune System: Protecting Your Focus in a Noisy World
We live in a world designed to capture our attention. Notifications. Feeds. Breaking news. Endless scrolling. All competing for your time, your energ...
The Practice of Presence: Capoeira, Meditation, and Choosing Your Response
In capoeira, everything depends on presence. Miss a cue, drift into autopilot, react without awareness — and the game slips away from you. The same is...
Self-Reflection and Journaling: Capoeira, Clarity, and Tuning Your Mind
In this episode, we explore self-reflection as the foundation of growth, and journaling as one of the most powerful tools for clarity and self-improve...
Morning Ritual: How Capoeira Teaches Us to Begin the Day
This episode brings together several ideas from earlier chapters — identity, goals, habits, and planning — and distills them into one simple practice:...
Have a Plan: Capoeira, Teaching, and the Discipline of One Day
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” This episode is about planning — not as rigidity, but as responsibility. Drawing parallel...
Identity Over Goals: Capoeira, Habits, and Who You Become
This episode opens the second section of the book — a section about habits and self-improvement. At first glance, habits may seem far from capoeira. ...
Passenger or Pilot? Taking Responsibility for Your Own Learning
Are you just along for the ride — or are you actually learning? In this episode, we talk about what it means to move from passive consumption to real...
Malandragem Today: What Capoeira Teaches Us About Health and Survival
Malandragem is often associated with mischief, cunning, and street smarts. In Brazilian culture, it grew out of necessity — a way to survive in a worl...
The Three Pillars of a Good Capoeira
To become a master, you first have to become a good student. In this episode, we explore the idea of good study through the “Three Pillars” described...