Unlocking Your Potential

Unlocking your potential, meaning being the best version of yourself. How does one do this?
We know scientifically that if you put yourself in a new environment, new genes turn on. What this means is that each and every person on the planet has this biological potential that won’t be realised unless you move around in the world to different challenging circumstances (based on the work of Jordan Peterson).

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How do you unlock the potential within you?

We know scientifically now that if you put yourself in a new environment,

New genes turn on within your nervous system.

What this means is that each and every person on the planet has this biological potential that won't be realized unless you move yourself around in the world to different challenging circumstances which will turn on these different neural circuits or in some ways bring them forth,

Allowing you to see the true potential that you may have.

So by exposing yourself to different environments you put different physiological demands on yourself all the way down to a genetic level which will manifest as new elements of you.

This is why there are so many old stories about a coming-of-age trial or going on a pilgrimage or going on a great quest or going on great adventures.

The writers of these stories may have not known about the science that we now know but they strongly understood the psychology behind unlocking a human being's potential.

So by taking yourself out of Hobbitsville where everyone knows you in your most limited self and now instead you go on a quest by which you unlock your potential you can now truly see what was underneath you and what now can come forth.

Hercules,

Achilles and Enkidu are still spoken about even to this day as they left their sleepy villages or in the case of Enkidu the forest and unlocked their potentials by taking on great challenges and adventures.