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I went to the event very curious and even excited for having had organized a TEDxYouth at the end of last year. I left as a human more human, with broadened horizons and an enormous extra dose of brilliance in my eyes. Since I have returned to Brazil, many people have asked me how the trip was and, as much as I try to tell the details, I cannot share many of the things that I had felt during the conversations and workshops. No, words are not enough to translate the intensity of these experiences.

The point is that things happen when you get to know people. During the workshops, I got to know determined, brilliant, creative, and resourceful organizers, but the real magic happened when I got to know them as people, who spend much of their lives doing things outside of fantastic TEDx organizing. That’s where I grow to understand the other 50-90% of them that makes them who they are, and that’s also where we figure out how we can best help each other, professionally and as friends, not just as organizers exchanging isolated ideas around events with a TEDx linked to them.

The experience hangs like a colorful cloud in the air of the not-too-distant past in a still-activated overlay of individual experience, but despite the multiplicity of perspectives from which the TEDxSummit could be seen, chances are, there’s one thing we can all look back on and agree upon: we’re each an essential part of this deeply inspired tribe, and feel very lucky in being so.