Effectiveness and Efficiency in Potential Development

 By A. Zamroni Sw.

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In many cases, the potential is like a mystery or a riddle. We believe that everyone has potential, but often we ourselves don't even know what the true potential or true potential we have or what is in ourselves. The potential is mysterious; its presence can be felt, but its form or form is often not caught by sight so it always causes curiosity.

Not a few people throughout their lives have never known for sure what potential they have even though their own lives have not failed either. Even we also don't know whether great people, like Ibn Khaldun, Aristotle, Isaac Newton, Leonardo da Vinci, Leo Tolstoy, William Shakespeare, Amadeus Mozart, Napoleon Bonaparte, Thomas Jefferson, Mahatma Gandi, Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway, Mohammad Hatta, Pele, Muhammad Ali, Steve Job, and Bill Gate all knew their potential. In order to be such a success, great, and legendary, had they made efforts to develop their respective potentials according to their original potential? Was Aristotle fully aware that his greatest talent was really in philosophy or did Muhammad Ali fully understand that his greatest talent was indeed boxing? Could it be that Aristotle had a great talent too in singing so that if he developed this potential properly and the circumstances of the times were supportive, in addition to being a great philosopher he would also become a top singer in the world. Maybe Muhammad Ali also has a great talent in painting so that when he develops it optimally, in addition to becoming world champion in boxing, he will also be known as a painter who is equal to Pablo Picasso and Rembrandt.

History has proven that great and successful figures are not always born from the synchronization between efforts to develop potential on the one hand and the potential itself (existing potential) on the other. That is, the birth of successful figures is not always or not always determined by the suitability of the potentials of the figures with the efforts they make to develop these potentials. It could be that a character is interested and interested in producing electronic works and thanks to his hard work and persistence he succeeded in becoming the leading and richest electronics entrepreneur, when in fact he has a great talent in music or literature.

However, of course, such miracles or weirdness cannot automatically be used as an excuse to underestimate the importance of knowing and ensuring potential as a starting point for developing and optimizing potential in an effort to achieve success. After all, for most humans, knowing one's potential and developing it into a competency or qualification that can bring success is more important and more necessary than making careless efforts to achieve success in life. That is, all the efforts we make to achieve success, however, are necessary and important to be tailored to our respective potential. Miracles, strangeness, or uniqueness can happen - as illustrated earlier - but they are exceptional and can only be done by people with extraordinary abilities and determination, passion, hard work, and unusual environmental support also.

In today's modern life, success is difficult to achieve by means of wasteful time, effort, thought, and money. In the midst of a growing population, increasing awareness for a successful life, intense competition, rapid globalization, limited resources, and the advancement of science and technology, success must be achieved in effective and efficient ways. So, effectiveness and efficiency in achieving success can only be achieved if our efforts to develop our potential are based on proper recognition and knowledge of our original potential. The more precise we are in recognizing and knowing the potential we have for us to develop into competencies and qualifications, the more effective and efficient our efforts will be in achieving success.

By recognizing and knowing our potential properly, we have made massive savings in time, cost, energy, and thoughts. This is because we are not constantly dwelling on and being preoccupied with unplanned, obscure, and unguided efforts, which consume enormous resources (money, energy, thoughts, time, etc.). Imagine, how much time, cost, effort, and thoughts we waste if we misidentify and know potential? How big a waste we make if for years we have worked hard to study and practice, but it turns out that what we practice is not in accordance with our true potential? What a shame if our talents, for example, in the arts, but what we continue to boost our abilities in sports, or vice versa?

Thus, the effectiveness and efficiency of potential development is part of the determining factors in achieving achievement and success. Achievements and successes cannot be achieved by means of speculative (chance) development of potential. The development of potential that is carried out speculatively will not only lead to waste of many things, but also make efforts to achieve achievement and success very difficult to do or even easily fail.

(Source: Sadah Siti, http://caraelok.blogspot.com/2017/01/effectivity-dan-effficiency-dalam.html)