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Nick, Great paper. I agree with your point of view.
i find it interesting that you can never reach your full potential because once you reach something, it ceases to be potential. i also agree with your paper except for the last sentence. we never do the best we can, because we can always do better.
I also feel that we can never reach our full potential. It's impossible.
Good paper.
I agree with you that we can never reach our full potential. However, we need to recognize what's our potential since everyone has different potential.
I agree, doing the best you can are reaching our full potential are two different things.
Your paper makes a good point with many relevant examples, however, I also agree with Jennifer Lester’s point that we can always do better. I was wondering, was the soldier who threw himself upon the grenade reaching his fullest potential as a soldier or doing the best he could considering the circumstances?
I agree that no one can reach their full potential. Everyone needs to realize that they could have done more so that they work to do their best and provide themselves with the best circumstances.
I think people set goals they can ahieve to encourage themselves to continue doing things in their lives. I think that one can reach their full potential, but such an accounting can only take place at death. Looking back that person can evaluate whether they did the best they could in their time in this world.
There's always more we can do so we never reach our full potential. That's certainly an interesting point of view, and one that I'm not sure I entirely agree with. How do we know if there's more we can do? How can we be sure we haven't reached our full potential? We may always feel that there's more we could have done in a certain situation, but there's never really any way to tell. Things that seem like they might have worked, in hindsight, might actually have made any situation worse.
I agree that we never reach our full potential, but I disagree with the statement "we always do the best we can do." Sometimes people don't try to do their best and are satisfied with doing average.
I agree. Under the circumstances, everyone always does their best. The army's new ad campaign: Be All You Can Be (Under the Circumstances).
Some people will never put in their best effort. That's where laziness factors in, not absence of potential.
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I agree. How can we ever know if we reach our full potential. It makes perfect sense that if we set our goals too high and don't reach them, we feel like a failure, but if we set them low enough to reach them, could we have done better?