What becomes possible
A.R. Rahman had given them three years. The change took eight months.
A.R. Rahman gathered a group of underprivileged children for a project he called the Sunshine Orchestra. For three years he gave them violins and cellos and some of the finest teachers in the world, a few flown in from other countries. The training was there. The dedication and the belief that they could be great musicians were not.
Antano and Harini met the children only a handful of times over six months, half a day at a time. They did not add more practice. They changed the children's inner conviction, installed the states a high performer runs on, taught them to model their teachers, and let their brains generalise the learning in sleep.
In the eighth month Rahman launched them as the Sunshine Orchestra. Within a year and a half they performed at the United Nations, alongside Rahman himself.
The talent was never the missing piece. The conditions were. This guide is about the conditions, and how a parent creates them at home, from warmth rather than fear.


