Quantifying Human Potential

Human potential is not difficult to quantify. We all know those who excel for they are hard to keep hidden. Well then why don’t we all excel? Genetics. There are differences in all of us, some of those differences limit our abilities. However, our greatest asset is our mind.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t.

- Watson, Lyall

What about those who genetics are not a deterrent. The answer is our minds and everyone in this group has that potential. I believe this quote sums up all there is to be said about what we can achieve.

Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds himself heavenly mansions of Joy, Strength and Peace.By the right choice and true applictaion of thought man ascends to divine perfection. By the abuse and wrong application of thought he descends below the level of the beasts. Between these two are all grades of character and man is their make and master. Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul none is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and confidence is this; Man is the master of thought the molder of character and the maker and shaper of condition, environment and destiny.

- As a Man Thinketh by James Allen