What do you use to find potential?

[PepperBlossoms]

What's your method and filter for looking for potential?

How do you rank stuff on the potential it offers and why are you saying this has more potential than that?

[Yarco]

Potential for what? It will probably depend on the thing.

A potential mate.... a potential business opportunity...

For both, what they have in common I guess is.... congruence with what I'm already doing, synergizes with the skills or desires I already have, ease of implementing/exploiting that potential. Perceived depth.

[Kksd74628]

@PepperBlossoms

If I understood the question correctly then you ask How do you know what you should do to maximize positive outcome in relation to the time spent? (hope I answer for the right thing and if not at least you get answer to this thing then  )

First you should make list of the games you play. By games I mean things that you want to be good at and you find important for you. I give some of mine as examples below.

- I want to increase the level of happiness of people around me.

- I like spirituality, meditation and all deep things.

- I like to make music and express myself

If you are brave enough  you could share your list of important things here and that could help me to help you more. More topics to list the better, because that helps to analyze your values. Also I guess it's good time to say that there actually is are no any social morals or anything you should follow, but only that which leads you closer to your dream life.

When you know what you want to do then it's so much easier to get there, because NOW you have map where you are and where you want to go. Next thing is to find that path that at least makes sense NOW to you. Also if you are very diligent you could also point out traps in your path that you should be aware of.

After you know what you want to do and where your passion exists then make only decisions that help you to achieve those goals. There are absolutely no reason at all to do something which won't help you in any game. Also you should maybe rank your values so you know that if there is selection between those 2 you can easily choose that which is higher in your game list.

Hope that I helped you and make sure to make that list and I would be extremely happy to see that here <3

-joNi-

[PepperBlossoms]

Examples - One could rank the stuff in a building by potential and say humans (1st place), computers (2nd place), drugs (3rd place)

I may rank the human as having more potential than say the lamp shade.  But why?  Well the human can move around, make decisions, and change itself and the lamp can't.  The computers may have the next most potential because of the access to information/communication and the drugs after that because of epiphanies and context changes

I could look at cities and rank them - but it will also depend on what I want.

I could pick a busy, crowded city and say it has potential for working a wage slave job as there are lots of businesses, lots of places to live, lots of organizations, etc.

I could pick a quiet, low populated place in the forest and say that it has more potential for meditation, contemplation, art, music, beauty, nature, writing, etc. than would a crowded city because of not having to deal with traffic, noise, air pollution, anxiety that cities inspire, etc.

I could look at careers and say:

Actor - my potential is limited to what the writer wrote, what parts I am able to get, what I will allow myself to act like/do

Write - my potential is limited to what I can come up with and have been exposed to, what people will be willing to engage with

The writer has more potential to shape thought/story and change the momentum of society than does the actor because the writer makes the framework.  The actor's potential is less and is more as a puppet.  BUT - society may tend to interact more with the actor than the writer and it could be that the writer needs the actor to help paint the story but the writer is still the one coming up with what is getting painted.

Teacher - my potential is limited to what I am allowed to teach, what my students are willing to listen to/participate in, what I am aware of, what the parents will tolerate their kids learning, what my kids already know, how much time I have to talk to the kids; the teacher may not necessarily get to create new ideas about reality and may be limited to teaching old ways of thinking.  they may only get to teach one subject and may have to follow a textbook but I may have the potential to teach old information in from a new perspective

Engineer - my potential is limited to what the codes are, what projects/clients/coworkers I have, what knowledge I know, what mindset I have; I may feel that I will not be able to change the momentum of engineering itself because I am constrained by doing what the client/company wants to pay for and what the code allows for

One could look at man-made rules and stuff like gravity and use that as constraints and look at what can be changed/modified.

What are my skills, interests, values and what am I currently doing and am I doing something that matches those or is there a clash?

One could say that not having been introduced to language can take away potential because one is missing out on info that others have come up with; one could say that having grown up in religion takes away potential if that religion does not promote questioning things.

Edited February 12, 2022 by PepperBlossoms

[Kksd74628]

@PepperBlossoms

It seems like you can answer to your own question after there was something to think about  First of all what is the point in knowing which has most potentiality. I mean do you want to change world for better or what's the matter.

If I understood right this time that which you meant then your question is What industry has most freedom and potentiality to impact others?

If you want to know that you could just continue contemplating like you did here and you would actually find pretty good answers.

I would still say that motivational speakers, some spiritual gurus, book makers or business (wo)men have actually most impact to people, because they have big audience and good status for people to take advices pretty effortlessly. Also only being popular in internet now a days increases that potentiality exponentially.

If you want to increase your own pontentiality to impact others you should also build lot of friendships and followers around you so everything you need is behind one click and that could be pretty handy.

Hope that NOW I answered to right thing   

[Preety_India]

I think every person on planet earth has a unique potential to offer to the world which is unique in itself. Although I think some kinds of ability and potential are more valuable than others. For example, I'd say a doctor's potential to heal and cure is really important and valuable in comparison to the potential of a software programmer or TV presenter or a painter.