Life is full of barriers. There always seems to be something between us and a desirable future. Failure happens all the time. But human potential is unlimited. Everyone can achieve anything meaningful. If you’re a 40-year-old-couch-potato-with-no-idea-what-to-do-in-your-life, within your lifetime you have the potential to be a trillionaire in $, the world’s most celebrated scientist, artist, writer, leader.
The word potential means that your future is limited by your capacity which is influenced a bit by your genes and age but in the modern fast-paced, dynamic life – much more by your choices. Of course, your current situation in life limits your choices considerably. But in the long term, there are no tables that can’t be turned around. Freedom, human connections, education, and resources can be found. Situations that increase our knowledge of ourselves and the world will happen to anybody and the more you follow the speed and scale principles, the more intense the learning will be and the faster the growth that will follow.
Your character is in your head and nowhere else. Game of Self problems are potentially the easiest to fix due to nothing in the real world having to change, you just need to rewire your human brain a bit. Your brain’s best ability is that it can learn and change. Once you believe it’s fixed, it actually is.
Your potential for any kind of meaning and success is absolutely unlimited. Your potential for failure is also absolutely unlimited.
While The Game of Life needs an understanding of the odds as good as possible, The Game of Self needs something to make you feel better, while still thinking realistically.
Don’t ever listen to someone who tells you what you can’t do. They are always wrong. Be smart, think, share and get feedback, research and trust your intuition. Options in life are so much more than your mind can comprehend and you can follow an almost infinite number of life paths. Believe anything is possible, still evaluate the odds and always remember the much better idea may be the next thought you have, if only you keep options open.
Anyone who tells you “you will make it” does not understand the odds side of things and is not helping your cause by spreading potential misinformation and loading you with expectations and pressure. “I can make it” are the right words to use. If asked for a clear opinion, you can say exact odds, it’s fun and helps you develop odds intuition.
If everyone comes to believe in the unlimited human potential inside them and lives with this hopeful thought feeling, what a world we would live in!
