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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.