When someone is invited to give a lecture, coordinate an activity or training session at the last minute and says they need to prepare, it is common to hear: You don't need that. You can do it easily.

Those who say this forget that no one is born ready. Not even those we call geniuses.

They are driven by passion, an inner fire for the area of their interest: art, science or any other area of human knowledge.

They have a latent vocation, a penchant, but they dedicate themselves body and soul to what they love. They invest time, energy and resources incessantly, which leads them to overcome challenges and achieve extraordinary feats.

Their path is not always easy. Sometimes they have to face obstacles and even failures. However, they are not intimidated and face everything as an opportunity for growth.

This is what guarantees them success, the applause of the world.

At a recent concert, we had the opportunity to watch an impeccably

performance of a violinist.

Two thousand people stood up and applauded and applauded again and again.

The young man was only nineteen years old. And the exclamations were constant: A genius.

Yes, a genius who began studying the violin when he was five years old  and was playing in the orchestra at the age of seven. And he still studies today, under the tutelage of a renowned teacher.

Winner of numerous awards, he is on the list of Thirty Before Thirty, from the most respected business and economics magazine, Forbes Brazil.

A superb artist with a reserved place in a select Brazilian Academy of Arts.

His great lesson: persistence, study, dedication.

Persistence is the ability to keep striving to achieve a desired goal.

Thus, the writer feeds his mind, his intellect continuously. With this, his creativity finds plenty of material to expand.

Study exercises the brain, strengthens memory, the ability to concentrate and reason.

It broadens our world view, leading us to explore different cultures, eras and areas of knowledge. And it encourages us to always go further, to want to know more, to investigate further.

Dedication is this active willpower, to believe in our ability to overcome obstacles, to achieve what we dream of.

Thomas Edison rightly said that genius is one percent genius and ninety-nine percent hard work.

The famous American inventor demonstrated his incredible productivity and capacity for work, recording more than a thousand revolutionary contributions, among them the incandescent light bulb and the phonograph.

So, when we are amazed by someone's oratory, let us think about how many hours they dedicated to studying and reflecting.

How much effort they must have put into classes to improve their diction and the inflection of their voice.

When we applaud a dancer, let us remember how many years it took them to achieve the virtuosity they demonstrate, the lightness of their gestures and the elasticity of their body.

The impeccable technical mastery with precision of movements, execution of steps and expressiveness in the choreography.

Geniuses. Virtuosos. Dedicated, persevering beings.

Let us applaud their efforts. Let us learn from them.

Spiritist Moment Team, with details life
 details of the violist Guido Santana.
February 25.2025