THE MEASURE OF POTENTIAL

We often hear people speak of individuals, organizations or nations as having potential. The question on my mind today is, can potential be measured? How come we meet people who seem to have great and promising futures and yet not able to produce much in life. Is it possible that such strong or weakmperformance by such an individual, company or nation could have been better predicted?

My answer is yes. I would borrow my consideration from the laws of physics.

We speak of Potential as the ability to do work. In social use we also speak of potential as the productive capacity of an individual, company or nation. The bottom line is when we speak on potential we tend to predict that the object in question has enough force to make certain amount of progress.

This is (Force × Distance) = work

Potential Energy = Work Done

Let me give a social interpretation

Potential could be measured as

Character(The internal strength produced as a result of discipline) as your mass, Rate at which one gets better at getting better....that is rate of improvement as your acceleration and Vision ...the distance one sees with clarity that can be covered....being your height or distance.

An individual with disciplined character, committed to continuous improvement and with great vision will most definitely make significant progress as long as the direction is consistent with time.

Regards,

DI

GOVERNMENT AND JOB

Is it really the responsibility of the government to provide jobs?

It is my honest opinion that job creation is primarily the responsibility of the individual. The government as leaders of contemporary social structure may be positioned to do so, but it doesn't take away the responsibility from the individual. The challenge many times is that we may not like the associated pay. There's work all over the place. We need to go out there to solve real problems and so create real value which is the basic definition of a job.

The real question is not that we weren't given work, but that we do not have the opportunity to either serve, add value or help. A helper can never be jobless. If you have a disposition to help, you will always have a job.

Offer to help and you will never be without a job.

DI