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
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