Well, I consider persistence a kind of genius. By here, I'm defining "persistence" as "determination." I mean, not many people have the concentration and will it takes to succeed and to achieve something. If you're going to say "genius" as in "smarts"...even that's not entirely helpful. You could be a genius, but without direction, it's just wasted energy - nothing gets done.

As for examples...I could give you a personal one...By all accounts, I'm not a musical prodigy, but when I started the violin, I would literally practice for 8 hours a day. Just play whatever songs I could get my hands on, in competition with myself. I ended up getting second chair of first section by the time summer was over, and I joined our middle school orchestra and got into honors district afterwards, on the bass too. I've considered that to be one of my best accomplishments, so yeah xd;