The Potential Spectrum Explained

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The potential spectrum is the range of all that could be. Potential is the possibility or capacity of something. Often times I say that potential doesn’t mean anything. I say that because in the realm of possibility, anything is possible. A hang up here for some people is instead of possibility people rather engage in semantics around probability. Probability has this element of comfort associated with it. That comfort is something that I recently have been calling, the “Adam Effect.” The Adam Effect is humanity’s innate inclination to not or be very picky about rising to the occasion of responsibility. 

Probability massages the Adam Effect in people because chance is generally out of our control. Possibility implies responsibility whereas probability suggests the influence of external forces. So, while to me possibility doesn’t mean much of anything, if you’re a person who is burdened by what could be for one reason or another, possibility can be everything. This is because if you are willing to choose to be uncorrupted in your thought process, or allow yourself to believe that you can do anything that you put your mind to, then all of a sudden there isn’t anything you can’t do.