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| If a startup is a vehicle to maximize your potential, let us first understand what potential is. | |
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| Potential is a force, a force that can do some work, create something, move something. | |
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| Potential has two components. It has magnitude and it has a direction. Potential is a vector quantity. | |
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| So it is not just about how much potential or force you possess, but also in what direction is that potential, that force applied. | |
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| The direction is also important. | |
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| Let us examine these two in detail, magnitude and direction. | |
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| And please remember that your objective is not listening to these sessions, your objective is contemplation. | |
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| So make a lot of notes and make time to keep everything else aside and think about them. | |
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| So what is potential with a high magnitude? | |
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| If your potential has a high magnitude, you have great depth to your thought process. | |
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| So whatever you do, you develop deep insights about that work or the problem that you are trying to solve. | |
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| A high magnitude of potential also means you have perspectives that are unique to you, to your thought process. | |
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| It is because you combine all your existing knowledge together in a certain manner to create a new compound that only you could have created. | |
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| It is like creating your own special theory of relativity about your work or the problem you are trying to solve. | |
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| And this could be done in absolutely anything that you do, no matter how routine or mundane it might be. | |
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| If you apply depth to your thought process, new insights are bound to surface. | |
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| So potential with a high magnitude is one that has depth of thought and can create new insights. | |
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| You should have potential with a high magnitude. | |
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| But in addition to its magnitude, potential also has a direction and the direction could be right or wrong. | |
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| It is this direction that determines your peace of mind. | |
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| If the direction of your potential is wrong, it is unlikely that you will be peaceful. | |
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| Financially successful, perhaps, peaceful, unlikely. | |
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| So potential with a high magnitude, but applied in a wrong direction, will be catastrophic. | |
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| A startup is a vehicle to maximize your potential. | |
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| Maximizing your potential means maximizing its magnitude and applying that magnitude in the right direction. | |
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| Alright, so we have seen so far that one, a startup is a vehicle to maximize your potential and your peace of mind. | |
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| And two, potential as a magnitude, which is depth of thought and a direction, which is right or wrong. | |
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| But how do you maximize your potential and your peace of mind? | |
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| To do that, you need a systematic framework that you can refer to from time to time, to check if you are on the right track. | |
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| Am I increasing my depth of thought? Am I generating new insights? | |
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| Am I doing all of this for the right purpose? Am I moving in the right direction? | |
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| Because if your thinking is muddled, you may make decisions that are not necessarily right for you, but because you see others make similar decisions. | |
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| You may do things not because they resonate well with you, but because that is the current trend, or because you wish to gain quick success of fame. | |
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| You need a framework that you can use to determine your plan of action. | |
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| We will use the Adios framework to help you do that. | |