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| 0 9000 If a startup is a vehicle to maximize your potential, let us first understand what potential is. | |
| 9000 18000 Potential is a force, a force that can do some work, create something, move something. | |
| 18000 27000 Potential has two components. It has magnitude and it has a direction. Potential is a vector quantity. | |
| 27000 36000 So it is not just about how much potential or force you possess, but also in what direction is that potential, that force applied. | |
| 36000 39000 The direction is also important. | |
| 39000 45000 Let us examine these two in detail, magnitude and direction. | |
| 45000 51000 And please remember that your objective is not listening to these sessions, your objective is contemplation. | |
| 51000 59000 So make a lot of notes and make time to keep everything else aside and think about them. | |
| 59000 64000 So what is potential with a high magnitude? | |
| 64000 71000 If your potential has a high magnitude, you have great depth to your thought process. | |
| 71000 79000 So whatever you do, you develop deep insights about that work or the problem that you are trying to solve. | |
| 79000 87000 A high magnitude of potential also means you have perspectives that are unique to you, to your thought process. | |
| 87000 95000 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. | |
| 95000 103000 It is like creating your own special theory of relativity about your work or the problem you are trying to solve. | |
| 103000 109000 And this could be done in absolutely anything that you do, no matter how routine or mundane it might be. | |
| 109000 117000 If you apply depth to your thought process, new insights are bound to surface. | |
| 117000 127000 So potential with a high magnitude is one that has depth of thought and can create new insights. | |
| 127000 131000 You should have potential with a high magnitude. | |
| 132000 140000 But in addition to its magnitude, potential also has a direction and the direction could be right or wrong. | |
| 140000 144000 It is this direction that determines your peace of mind. | |
| 144000 149000 If the direction of your potential is wrong, it is unlikely that you will be peaceful. | |
| 149000 155000 Financially successful, perhaps, peaceful, unlikely. | |
| 155000 163000 So potential with a high magnitude, but applied in a wrong direction, will be catastrophic. | |
| 163000 167000 A startup is a vehicle to maximize your potential. | |
| 167000 178000 Maximizing your potential means maximizing its magnitude and applying that magnitude in the right direction. | |
| 178000 185000 Alright, so we have seen so far that one, a startup is a vehicle to maximize your potential and your peace of mind. | |
| 185000 193000 And two, potential as a magnitude, which is depth of thought and a direction, which is right or wrong. | |
| 193000 198000 But how do you maximize your potential and your peace of mind? | |
| 198000 206000 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. | |
| 206000 211000 Am I increasing my depth of thought? Am I generating new insights? | |
| 211000 216000 Am I doing all of this for the right purpose? Am I moving in the right direction? | |
| 216000 226000 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. | |
| 226000 235000 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. | |
| 236000 240000 You need a framework that you can use to determine your plan of action. | |
| 240000 245000 We will use the Adios framework to help you do that. | |