{"id":4161,"date":"2024-08-22T15:05:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T22:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2024-08-22T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T22:05:07","slug":"potential-will-mess-us-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/potential-will-mess-us-up\/","title":{"rendered":"“Potential” will mess us up!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I may have a genius IQ. I am very curious. I like learning. I have some people skills and presentation skills. As far as capitalist success, I’m pretty set up. I have ADD and anxiety and the stuff that most teachers wanted me to do in school was just not interesting to me. I didn’t do homework and I think I ended up graduating with a 1.8 grade point average. I was acing tests, class-clowning, and ignoring homework as often as would allow me to continue school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing often told to my mom was “Scot has so much potential if he would only apply himself.” This anti-motivated me for two reasons…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Limited thinking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Potential to what? Most of my school seemed to be geared up to go to a local college, stay in town, do a normal job, get a normal house, have a normal family. Getting to normal isn’t what I would consider “so much potential.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlimited thinking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I have potential to everything. Even if i wasn’t born so privileged i could still be a soldier, a senator, a doctor, a tv actor, whatever… potential is endless and amorphous. Shooting for achieving my potential is a terrible goal. Even if I’m the richest person in the world, I’m still not pursuing my potential of being a soccer player or a house-husband or whatever other infinite potential things<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trap of infinity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I am all for people maximizing on their gifts. I’m all for people using their whole selves – for shooting big and dumping everything into it! Potential is a tarpit. It’s a trap that i still fall into on a regular basis. I think what’s possible and get a nose-bleed. Then, I get paralyzed. The remedy for me is to switch the search for “potential” to the search for “opportunity” … what’s in front of me now, or what will be in front of me. What’s fun? How do i like spending my time? Who do I like spending my time with? Opportunity is real even though my lens of the world is distorted, it’s a tangible path instead of just an endless void waiting to be filled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Side: in space movies, they fly in any direction they want near light speed through meteor showers and dodge rocks. Like, people get in wrecks on a two dimentional road with lines drawn on it. Are these space drivers that much better? seems impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take action: Write down a great thing you can do today in the next hour that will have a big effect on your mood or your main project.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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