Utilizing Potential

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Potential is often invisible and not felt so that it seems as if it is a mystery: there is an "object", but it is not tangible or only vague. In other words, potential is still a hidden power or force whose existence has not yet emerged and provides optimal benefits. To make the potential optimal and efficient, two things are needed, namely ambition and honing efforts.

1.  The Need for Ambition

Ambition is a strong and strong desire to be able to do something or be something –– do something, for example, break records and conquer mountain peaks; to be something, for example, to be an athlete, an artist, and a director. Ambition will move people to strive to do what is necessary for the fulfillment of desires. If someone has the ambition to become a famous sportsman, then he will try his best to realize this ambition.

With ambition, we will be motivated to do business. On the other hand, without ambition, we are prone to stagnation. Without ambition, we tend to feel satisfied and surrender to what we have got so that we are not motivated to get better, bigger, and higher things. Without having ambition, we will be passive so we may not know our potential or know it, but tend not to care.

Therefore, to know our potential, we need ambition. Ambition will drive us to achieve something; while to achieve something that we will try to explore and know our potential. However, we should not give excessive ambition. Excessive ambition can lead to the emergence of a blind attitude that does not care about ethics, law, and order, so that it will lead us to lawlessness and failure.

2. Sharpening Potential

The potential that every human being has in the beginning is still a silent or passive force. Potential is like raw materials that are piled up in storage and have not been utilized and processed. As passive power, potential requires touch. Without touch, the potential forever will only become a sleeping force and may eventually disappear and be in vain. Perhaps it is true to say that potential is like a sleeping "being" that must be awakened and resurrected.

Potential needs touch to be awakened and useful. That is, the potential needs to be tapped in a way that is honed so that it becomes a skill or skill. In other words, potential must be developed into real or tangible competencies or abilities. By realizing the potential into skills or abilities (real abilities), efforts to achieve achievements become possible.

How to hone potential so that it develops into skills or abilities? The trick is none other than by training it properly. In order to become a skill or skill, potential must be trained in the right method or way. The training to hone potential must also be done diligently, diligently, regularly, tenaciously, discipline, never giving up, not feeling satisfied quickly, optimally, and continuously.

(Source: Sadah Siti, http://caraelok.blogspot.com/search/label/Pengembangan%20P potential)