You might be in a negative spiral, productively or psychologically, stuck thinking you’re just not good enough, you’ll never get ahead, and the world is unfair. Or perhaps you feel pretty good about your attitude, but you know there’s always room for improvement, and you’re curious about what you can tweak to do better.

Whatever your current position, you have the opportunity to take agency at work and in life. You can actively improve your situation because it all comes down to attitude, and your attitude is not set in stone. Even better—you don’t need a million training courses or a year-long MBA to adjust it. You can improve your attitude one pep talk and one step at a time.

Importantly, this book is no list of things to do! You’ll learn that attitude is about how others perceive you and how you perceive yourself, how It’s separate from your personality and how to completely change and improve your life and career by understanding and managing better your:

• Confidence
• Positivity
• Growth-mindset
• Emotional intelligence
• Adaptability
• Resilience
• Problem solving mindset

As a bonus the book also includes a set of tips on how to best leverage skills like managing expectations and your drive for excellence to achieve strong success in your career.

Eduardo is a creative disruptor, a change agent in all he does and a firm believer in continuous learning. He enjoys also to share his experience and views in public speaking events and conferences also allowing him to interact with people from all over the world.

After graduating in Business Management in 2004 at ISCTE in Lisbon he started his first job as an auditor in the Financial Services. Then, at age 25, an opportunity came to leave Portugal, move to Angola, which he took. He is currently Executive Director, since 2018, of a bank in Angola that is part of an important international Financial Group.

He also created his own project, called Igniting Potential, where he acts as a Business Angel and mentor to entrepreneurs and Startups, mainly focusing on helping the entrepreneurial ecosystem to develop and mature, with a focus of helping to created much needed new jobs in the country.