Potential
Your potential is limited by your capability to change perspective and perceive unseen opportunities.
All we are is all we can conceive.
:::tip Mantra Love is seeing potential in others and helping them move towards it - Viktor Frankl :::
Context
- Fulfilment: Figure out what you are here to do?
- Purpose: Set a clear vision and mission
- Science: Use science to create technology
- Technology: Use technology to engineer better systems
- Habits: Use systems to live better practices
- Startups: Team up with like-minds fill a gap in the market by fulfilling a need
- Coach: Helping someone else is the best way to help yourself
Backcasting
Start with the end in mind. Working backward from a desired future state to visualise the path and determine what decisions are needed to get there is a powerful technique.
Picturing the destination makes the path clearer. Pre-mortems also help by projecting forward to envision how to overcome potential obstacles.
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Questions
What is the most important question you could ask yourself to make progress?
- Potential is bounded by what you can conceive — what is currently outside your value system's conception of what's possible?
- When you picture the destination clearly, which decision on the path becomes obvious that wasn't before?
- What's the difference between potential you can develop and potential you're waiting to be given?