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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.