potential

Everyone has an idea, or at least the ability to generate an idea. You can’t help but walk around for a day and hear the genius of people as they candidly throw ideas that could have a tremendous impact on the world around them. We log these ideas in our memories and if we ever give them a second thought, we classify them as having potential.

The idea has potential.

This is the most frequently used incomplete sentence you will ever hear. When I was a student, I was told several times, by teachers, relatives, friends, colleagues - that I have potential. It sounded complimentary at first until the novelty wore off. And then I thought,

my ideas have potential?

Potential for what? We never do finish that sentence. Probably because potential could just as easily mean the potential to fail as it could the potential to succeed. For those of you who are exploring the potential of your ideas, recall that success is the ability to move from each failure to the next with no loss of enthusiasm (Winston Churchill).

So whether you are propelled by discovering the potential of your idea or better still, your own personal potential, understand that to do either requires you to embrace your failures and shortcomings in order to recognize your strengths and successes.

May 20, 2007 | Filed Under random... like the kids say

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