“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” | William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“What is my potential?”

The wrong question, asked by millions.

The moment you ask it, you’ve already limited it.

Potential isn’t a number, a ceiling, a prediction.

It’s not waiting to be discovered like buried treasure.

The lazy man and the hard worker—both prisoners of the same delusion.

One thinks effort determines worth. The other thinks its absence does.

Neither sees the trap.

Personality, talent, circumstances—immaterial.

These are just stories we tell about why we can or cannot.

The real nobility? Not in hard work. Not in ease.

But in the disgust for what everyone else accepts as enough.

The seeker doesn’t ask “What is my potential?”

The seeker asks “What might exist beyond what I know?”

One question closes doors. The other dissolves walls.

Your potential isn’t something you have.

It’s something you stop defining.

Gratefully, Perspective First

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