THE REVOLUTION OF GENIUS BRAINS

Augusto Cury (psychiatrist, psychotherapist, scientist, researcher, and writer) said: “In an extremely competitive market, good professionals are trampled. Only excellent professionals survive!”

Yes, this is a great truth: It is not enough to be a good professional. You must be an excellent professional.

In this book, you will find the method by which you can become an excellent professional.

Chapter 1

Doctors, teachers, lawyers, pilots, programmers, taxi drivers, chefs, waiters, auto mechanics, archivists, etc., all want to be very good at their jobs, always better, increasingly better, until they reach excellence. Why do they want this? Why is it not enough for them to be satisfied with the level they have reached? Why would they want to continually progress in their profession?

Indeed, you will have great personal satisfaction after you manage to improve your skills and knowledge. For example, if you are a doctor, you want to be able to handle things better today than you did yesterday. Similarly, if you are an auto mechanic, you want to be able to handle things better today than you did yesterday. This applies to any profession you have.

But your personal satisfaction is not the only important thing. Competition in many fields is fierce. For example, if you are a lawyer, there is another lawyer somewhere who, if they have better skills than you, will manage to earn more money than you, and might even take your clients away from you. Similarly, if you are an auto mechanic, there is another auto mechanic somewhere who is much more skilled than you. And that competitor of yours could put you out of business.

Of course, you could choose to be satisfied with the professional level you are at now and not try to improve at all. However, if you choose this option, there is a danger that you will eventually go out of business. In other words, nothing good can await you.

The best option you should choose is this: always improve in your profession! If you are a doctor, you must be a better doctor tomorrow than you are today. If you are a teacher, you must be a better teacher tomorrow than you are today. If you are a programmer, you must be a better programmer tomorrow than you are today. If you are a plumber, you must be a better plumber tomorrow than you are today. If you are an engineer, you must be a better engineer tomorrow than you are today.

Your job is very important. You want your job to be stable. Unemployment is a dark prospect that terrifies you. For you, the employer (the one who offers you a salary) is a person in whom you place your greatest hopes. However, the employer wants you to always learn, always improve, and always adapt. If your employer is satisfied with you, your job is secure. Otherwise, you will end up unemployed, and you don’t want that.

One thing is clear: the better you become at your job, the further you move away from the possibility of becoming unemployed.

But, as you will see next, it is NOT enough for you to make efforts to become better and better in your profession. This is a peculiarity that might intrigue you.

Chapter 2

Surely you agree that society operates according to rules. It is absolutely natural for each person to prepare for a profession, then practice that profession and sustain their livelihood. If society were made up only of people who just want to sit at a desk and run a business, everything would fall apart across the entire planet. This immense “ant hill” in which we all live needs doctors, teachers, farmers, auto mechanics, builders, engineers, hairdressers, police officers, aviators, etc., etc., etc.

School has a very precise and very important role. It shapes people and prepares them for a certain profession. Nothing unusual here. Likewise, it is not uncommon for a young person who has just received a diploma from a school or university to want to pursue a successful career, a path they will follow with pleasure for the rest of their life, so that they become a professional appreciated and sought after by as many people as possible. Excellence in a profession inevitably attracts success and abundance for the one who practices that profession.

A very good doctor will always be sought after by patients and will NEVER lack money. However, a poorly trained doctor should seriously question their career and well-being. A hairdresser wants to be as good as possible at what they do and wants all their clients to be satisfied, because only in this way will they create a good reputation, bringing success and abundance. An auto mechanic, if they are very good at repairing cars, will be highly sought after by those in need and, of course, will earn very well. Any professional, to be very good at their job, must dedicate themselves body and soul to this profession. Moreover, they must always improve to strive for excellence and perfection.

It is very good to wholeheartedly want to improve in the profession you have chosen! And it is indeed necessary for everyone that the members of society continuously climb the steps of professional perfection! However, people who direct their efforts exclusively towards the constant “polishing” of the skills used in their practiced profession make a big mistake, even though their intention is very noble: to be top-class specialists. Yes, their mistake is that they...