“…would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.”

– Orison Swett Marden

What are we capable of? What is our fullest potential as human beings? Perhaps we can consider the Guinness Book of World Records – or the Olympics – as a starting point.

We might think about great feats in areas such as:

• Speed at running, or swimming (Ye Shiwen and Cameron van der Burgh both set new world records for swimming in the 2012 Olympics)
• Endurance and strength (Kim Un-Guk set a weightlifting world record)
• Throwing, climbing, jumping, shooting… (a team from the Republic of Korea set an archery world record)
• Writing and speaking
• Mathematics and sciences
• Mastery in the arts, music, or other creative disciplines
• Memory (such as in a spelling bee)

Exercise:

With the above capacities already realized by human beings, what would a “world-record you” be capable of?

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