Translator: Elisabeth Buffard Reviewer: Ms Buffard's students
I didn't know that my life was going to take such a different road
because of one pair of these.
For those of you who don't know what these are,
they are juggling props created by Michael Moschen,
who even performed here on TEDxTalk six years ago.
They were further developed by Dai Zaobab.
He created a new shape and he named it "Buugeng",
then it travelled the whole world
and it arrived at my house in Brazil.
This prop has completely changed my life.
After one year with them, when I was in front of the computer,
on the Internet, trying to find something interesting to learn.
I'm a single son, reared by a traditional family.
This kind of family where everyone has wished for their only son
a profession, goals...
I tried to show them something different.
I have chosen from that moment to follow my dream,
to make this become a career.
After finishing high school,
I stopped studying classical subjects
like mathematics, physics,
to get fully into the world of manipulation and arts.
My days were from morning until night
doing research and more research.
with this and other props.
After four years of being completely out of the real world,
and being against the desire of my family,
school, society, I became someone.
I am now graduated from a professional circus school in Italy.
I have a video that has reached 2 million views on Youtube.
created by Malabarize-se
I have performed in more than 40 countries
around Europe, the USA, Japan,
including the TEDGlobal talk, in South America.
All of that didn't happen because of my technique.
But what was more important was the desire to follow my dream.
Most people have fears about following their passion as a career
and they get stuck into something that they don't want,
wasting all the weeks of their life doing what they don't like,
waiting for the break from their job to be finally who they should be.
I think that if everyone thought without fear
about following their passion,
life would be more enjoyable.
Even the hard times you have to go through in any kind of career
would be easy because you're doing what you love.
Like me, moving to Europe and living in this camper for about one year
to save some money. Look how happy I was!
Even if the oil was frozen and I couldn't even make a salad,
it was OK.
I've been sharing my passion through many events
and even some locations where people don't have the opportunity to dream,
like in my city, São Paolo, in the favellas.
These children are constantly in contact with problems of drugs,
violence in their home,
and during this workshop,
they could have the opportunity to try something new,
and most important, to remember and influence their own future,
to become who they want to be and not what society wants from them.
Even in schools, as I love to mention the TEDtalk by Ken Robinson,
who said how schools kill creativity.
You start as a baby, learning to walk, dance, use your body.
And little by little, because of the society and your context,
you stop using all these movements
to become someone who just needs the right side of your brain to work.
I love to work with these in schools and even some companies
because juggling is not just about throwing three balls in the air
or manipulating two black and white psychedelic scythes.
Here, you can see how many gains and developments you can learn
while you're juggling.
Intellectual, mental, physical and psychological benefits
that you can gain while you're juggling.
I'm not here to obligate anyone to be a juggler.
I'm here to remind people to dream and live your dream
because if you cannot dream, you cannot wake up.
Thank you.
(Applause)
Now, I'm going to share with you
my dream.
(music)
(Applause)