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Realizing Your Potential
"The gift is not what we're given, but what we're meant to give away."
Aachman Garg
July 07, 2024
Can you imagine if you truly spent the rest of your years just trying to compensate for the things you were never supposed to be good at, cultivating and maturing your weaknesses? Mature your strengths. Find what you are good at and get better, not because you are racing toward some imaginary finish line but because fate is a practice, a commitment to take the raw potentiality alive within us and to fall in love with it, to make something of it, and to offer it. Offer it far and wide and to anyone who wants to receive it. The gift is not what we’re given, but what we’re meant to give away.
I read this yesterday and I think it’s beautifully written. It doesn’t reveal any mind-blowingly new ideas but restates the simple ideas in a way that helps you absorb them and refine your perspective. Let me dissect it for you!
What would have happened if I invested time to compensate for my weaknesses? What would have happened if I worked hard to improve my GPA, to be better at competitive programming, to learn artificial intelligence? At best, I would have landed a mediocre job because I would never be as good. It sounds demoralizing but it’s the truth. You cannot get very good at something you’re not genuinely interested in.
Instead, find something you’re naturally good at, something you’re curious about, something that doesn’t feel like work. That is your strength. Double down on it.
This principle isn’t limited to work either. You may not be the charming kind, but you can be a consistently reliable person. If you cannot always be punctual, maybe you can be an easy person to talk to. It’s easier to keep up with your positives than fixing the negatives.
The second part of the passage talks about the reason to work on yourself, the reason to realize your potential. Why would you want to do that? To earn more money? To become more popular? To be better than the next person in the room? No. Brianna says that realizing your potential helps you meet your fate.
When you follow your curiosity, develop your talents, work on yourself consistently, you are able to create something to offer to the world. Your gift to the world is your fate and the reason to realize your potential.
Were you able to resonate with the passage? Let me know by replying to this email or commenting on the website.
Catch you next week,
Aachman
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