A short YouTube transcript excerpted from a dialogue between two speakers reflecting on how people project 'potential' onto others and the challenge of aligning perceived potential with an individual's true purpose or desires. The speakers discuss examples (leadership, parenting, athletics) and note that external expectations can shape a person's accepted identity.
Do you feel like developing potential.
Is difficult when you don't know what someone wants to be? You can say, man, he got potential to be a great leader. Or, you know, this person got a great potential to be an incredible parent. Or this person has the potential to be a really great basketball player or a really great. You know, they always like numbers, but they may have. They might be. Their purpose might be community service. Because your potential can be put on you by a bunch of people saying it. You have.
Kind of accepted this projection. Yeah.
This is who you should be 1000%. And figuring those things out simultaneously is a very rare thing. Not everybody is able to. I mean, if everybody was able to do it, it'd be a lot more successful people, and the world might look a little different.
