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How
to reach your full potential
Comic book fans may remember the Charles Atlas story that appeared on the back of nearly all the comic books years ago. The comic showed puny little Charles Atlas on the beach with bullies kicking sand in his face. Charles orders the bodybuilding program to build his muscles and stand up to the bullies. When he receives the program, it does not give him a box full of muscles to strap on to his body, but the capacity to develop his body with discipline and exercise. Likewise, a talent is really not a full-blown "ability" but rather a "capacity" to develop an ability. Ability implies that you are able to do something. While both words have somewhat the same meanings, the real difference is that an ability is a state of being (or present tense) and a capacity enables for the future (or future tense). For example, if someone has a real talent for chess but is unwilling to study chess theory and strategy, will that person reach his or her full potential? Of course not! I have seen chess players who did not have nearly as much ability as their counterparts become chess masters simply because they were willing to invest the time and energy.
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