Human Potential
The phrase Human Potential refers to the innate capacities, abilities, and possibilities that reside within each person. It encompasses the totality of an individual's physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual capabilities, which can be developed and maximized over a lifetime, given full satisfaction of one's Seven Essential Needs.
Related LP Terms
Human Potential > Individual Potential, Lightning Path Human Development Framework, Seven Essential Needs, Species Potential, The Lightning Path
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What does a fully developed human look like? Who can tell? We've never had a society that has the capacity to meet all Seven Essential Needs and we've never had a society that prioritizes their satisfaction. Until we do, we can only speculate what's possible.
Human potential may be broken into Individual Potential and Species Potential.
According to the Lightning Path Human Development Framework, actuation of full potential requires Sufficient Satisfaction of the Seven Essential Needs, from birth through old age.[1] Failure to meet essential needs inevitably requires healing interventions from sophisticated healing frameworks.
There is, of course, the important question of "What is full human potential?" That's hard to tell because the human species has never enjoyed an optimal environment and, what's worse, the Accumulating Class have been suppressing potential for thousands and thousands of years.
Abraham Maslow provided some speculations.[2]
Nasa scientists Dr. George Land has some thoughts.[3]. View his brief talk below where he suggests that all children are born creative geniuses but that something (i.e., The System) dumbs them down.
Footnotes
- ↑ Mike Sosteric and Gina Ratkovic, “It Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs,” Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2022, doi:https://doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol34iss1id887.
- ↑ Maslow, A. H. “The Farthest Reaches of Human Nature.” The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 1, no. 1 (1969): 1–9.
- ↑ Engels, Coert. “We Are Born Creative Geniuses and the Education System Dumbs Us down, According to NASA Scientists - Ideapod.” Ideapod (blog), December 16, 2017. https://ideapod.com/born-creative-geniuses-education-system-dumbs-us-according-nasa-scientists/
