There were six years of YouTube, five years of Sniper de Questões, more than 20 thousand students and hundreds of students approved in the most competitive courses and colleges in Brazil. But the time has come to stop. So in this video I'm going to tell you why I decided to stop, the reasons that led me to do so, and what this last year will be like working on Sniper de Questões and practically being alone on Sniper.
Until December 2025. In other words, the last class of Question Sniper. The idea is not to stop because the message is no longer important.
The message remains super important. Studying for Enem or the entrance exam does not have to be traumatic. You don't need to study all day.
You don't need to take an expensive course. You don't need to kill yourself studying. It is possible to study online.
It is possible to study without spending a lot of money, it doesn't matter if your foundation at school wasn't good, it's not your fault. So, this whole message that it is possible to put together your strategy and pass the course you want in one or two years, at a public college. So, this is possible and this message continues to be important.
But I think there are other people who can continue talking about this and that it's time for me to take new directions, however difficult it may be. So that's the idea for today. I hope I don't get emotional.
And the first reason is that it has been many years. So when I started studying about it, thinking about preparation, everything was new. So I had several books to read, I had articles to study, I had things to think about and define how I would explain them, so everything was very new, very fresh, very interesting.
You know, it filled me with energy, like, talking about it. But over time it stopped being new, very natural. Even reading new articles doesn't add much, but at the same time I need something new, I need that feeling of discovering something new, of diving into something I don't know anything about.
In the last few years I wasn't feeling that, so I tried to go down a path that was kind of parallel, which would be, oh, I'm going to learn photography, I'm going to learn cinema and I'm going to learn, you know, new ways of continuing in the same field, just than with a more professional touch. So better videos. But it wasn't enough.
I really need to go to another area, dive head first into a new subject, rack my brains, not understand at first and find my way through the rocks until I find myself in some new area. It's really crazy to say that, because I still find this area of study very interesting, but it's something like that, it doesn't fulfill me anymore. So, if I have to work all day, every day, for years, in an area that no longer fulfills me, I don't think it makes sense.
There's even a theory about this, which is the lock-in theory, that when we're involved in a project, it's much more difficult to give up or change areas. So, for example, when you're in a job, even though you're not that excited about it, it's very difficult to leave that secure job and go to another. Or in relationships, sometimes the relationship isn't that good, but it's very difficult to change, so for me, you know, I also see the positive side of it, all the people that I've helped or that, you know, I've helped a little bit, they think.
the path and being in college and it is an incredible thing especially, for people who would be very difficult, the possibility, the probability of achieving it was small, and helping these people, and being useful, really serving, is a sensational thing, which I I will always remember what happened, but then it's time to do other things, time to do other things, no matter how difficult it is, because it's as if we have two parts, let me improve, it's as if you have several parts of yourself same, and one wants to continue, see the value in an area and wants to continue doing that. But the other is very thirsty for new things, wants to explore new environments or new ideas. So I really see myself at this crossroads, of having several options.
And I understood that, even though it worked, I don't need to continue this activity forever, I can follow this other dream to study something else and explore new subjects, so I'm going to recover here and we'll continue, so I want to spend this last year dedicating myself, super dedicating myself. And walk away with the idea that I did something really cool, positive, that helped. I don't want to drag it out and, you know, be difficult.
No, I want to leave at a good time. It's like, finishing a TV series at a good time and everything is working and that's the idea for me, so this next year of 2025 would be that, it would be a year in which I managed to settle down here in the Netherlands, I'm in the Netherlands and I live here now and finally we managed to settle down with a nice warm house, because the first year was a camp, it was very bad, very difficult in some ways, but it was very good in others, but now I think things have stabilized so I'm going having more time, more focus to make this last year the best possible in Sniper. And maybe some new videos here on YouTube too.
And so, a lesson from all this now, this idea of changing professions again for, I don't know, the third time. It's just that you don't need to, you know, continue with something just because you've already started, which is even the idea of sunk costs, lost costs, that for example, you're in a queue that's moving slowly, slowly, slowly, and you see the other walks quickly, but you've already spent so much time in line that it's moving slowly, and you think, oh, I'm going to stay here, I've already been here for so long and I'm going to walk and the other one walks much faster. And you haven't changed.
So, we don't need to make the same choice we made in the past. It is possible to change. It's great to change.
So, that's what I'm thinking now. And so, if you think about it, I've changed a few times. Maybe not so much.
Yeah, I think so much. I think a lot, actually. So, I switched from academic life to YouTube.
And now I'm going to switch from YouTube to something else that I'm not sure about yet. It's a lesson, like, not to be so focused on this and to be able to see new possibilities when you feel that things are no longer working out as well as before. And the second reason is that your life's interests change over time.
So James Hollis explains this, that in the first part of life we are concerned with creating an identity for yourself, a place in the world. So, you have your career, you have your husband, your wife, your children. So, this cute, perfect life, that you saw in the movies, or that your family showed you that this is the way.
So, this is the first part of life. And once you establish that, you start to ask yourself, is this my purpose here? What else am I going to do?
Or what would I like to do that I haven't done? So, you see that instead of having control over your life, over your identity, your career, your family, there are other things that are interesting too. Something like what your soul asks you to do, or what you discover or even, does this career I chose have to do with how I really am inside?
So, these are things that I spent a lot of time studying this year, which are Jungian psychology or analytical psychology and the name for this phenomenon now, in this change of look, of looking outside, what do I have to create outside of this look at inside, what I really want, it is very likely to happen. So, this is a new reason for me to think that, can't I study something else now? Third reason is that I moved to the Netherlands.
So, it's more difficult for you to integrate into a new country when your work is, you know, 100% in your home country. So, for example, I'm learning Dutch, I want to communicate here, I want to understand the way of living here, I want to interact here. But if I spend 8 to 18 working in Brazil, I will lose these other opportunities here.
So, it's like the change didn't happen 100%, you know? There's always a little foot there in Brazil, or there's half the body in Brazil and half here. So, I don't rule out ever returning to Brazil, but while I'm here, I really want to be here.
As we plan to stay for several years, the idea is for one more year to Brazil, so to finish the Snap of questions well and then I would just stay here, work here or study here, but something right here in the Netherlands. And a third reason, I mean a fourth, I think a fourth reason is that this business model in which I need social networks to make it work, so to have new students, or to share tips, like using Instagram, It's not something I like or want for a long time. Instagram, for me, is something that hurts me a lot.
So it's bad for attention, it's bad for comparison, it's bad for so many things that, you know, when I 'm on my deathbed, like those people there who say, oh, I wish I had lived a life where I didn't work so much , I'll tell you, I wish I had a life where I spent less time on Instagram. I'm very sure of that. I love making content for YouTube.
I like to get an idea. Think about this idea. And read books about this idea.
Or listen to podcasts about this idea. He knows? And go deeper into the idea.
And then create a video with a long and detailed structure. And that I think is interesting. So, at least I would watch it.
On Instagram, I have to be a different type of person. That I try, but I never manage to be, so I can't make short videos, I can't be productive, make a lot of content, and that's always been a difficult thing for me, you know, even when I managed it, it was an achievement suffered, which was very difficult, so I ended up getting sick. And it was super stressful.
Then I had burnout. And it wasn't cool. So, you need to use Instagram to make Question Sniper work.
And, you know, having new students. It's something I don't want. It's going to be.
. . I don't even know if next year I'll force myself to do Instagram.
I'm still deciding. But it's really something that's not cool. And then I always say here that the world needs the skills that only you have.
And then, let's say, you have a skill, but you try to fill the box of another skill, which is not yours, but you force yourself to go out there and do it. Several times in life we need to learn new skills, it's very natural. But when it's something very forced, very difficult, is that really okay?
Isn't there another more interesting path for you that better fits your skills? So that's exactly it for me. And so, I don't see YouTube as an end.
I think I can talk about other things I read later. For example, Jungian psychology. I can talk about the selfie, I can talk about the shadow, the ego and everything else.
And the complexes, which are , ugh, very interesting. I can talk about all of this. So, what will this year be like?
2025 will be the last year that Question Sniper is the way it is today. With videos, with text support, with lives. So, if you've ever thought about joining, this is your last chance.
In Question Sniper, we have the 4F method. It all starts with the queue, which is a queue of the most important subjects, which need to be studied in order of priority. And this is thinking about your final grade and which subjects are the basis for other subjects.
Second F will be the phases. We have phases 1, 2 and 3. I bet you have subjects that are in phase 1, subjects in phase 2 and subjects that are already in phase 3 or should already be in phase 3.
That is, taking old tests and correcting . The third F is the flow, which will be the Question Sniper planning. Here we start with the timeline.
So, on a sheet of paper or here on this page in Excel, you have an overview of your planning for the year. In a super simple way to do, follow and see your progress. And here you put together the queue, the phases and the formula, which will be the last F.
The formula shows how to study each subject. So how are you going to study, for example, mathematics? Or how are you going to study biology?
How are you going to study history? Each subject needs to be studied in a different way. That's why?
So you can learn faster. Because the method of each subject is prepared for possible obstacles that will appear, difficulties. Study techniques also come into play here, so which ones to use and which ones not to use, because there isn't time to use all the techniques.
Sniper also includes support. You post your timetable, your timeline or write however you prefer. And so we talk about your studies and how you are applying Question Sniper to your routine, which can sometimes be very different from normal.
Additionally, we have one Zoom live a week, where you can turn on your camera and we talk about how you are studying. If you enter November 24 or February or April 25, it doesn't matter. Access always lasts until December 2025.
But entering soon means that you can put together your strategy now and start studying in the best way possible right away, saving yourself several months until next year's test. So, 2025 will be my last year at Sniper and it could also be your last year of studies. Let's go?
