‘You can be far more than you are’

This struck with me since the first time I listened to the conversation between Jordan B Peterson and the podcaster Lex Fridman on Lex Fridman podcast. It is a 3-hour plus conversation but so far, I have listened to it at least 20 times. I don’t understand why this conversation have got me. The whole conversation is a masterpiece in my opinion. It is one of the best podcasts episodes of all time for me. 

Particularly, one idea, one comment has got me thinking and questioning me. Jordan B Peterson comments on the Michelle Angello David statue. “You can be far more than you are”. According to him, he analysed the statue and found that the best comment to describe it is the comment ‘you can be far more than you are’. I visited the ‘Galleli del Academia’ in Florence where the statue is before listening to the podcast. And I reflected back on what I have seen or observed about the statue, and I found this comment compelling and so true that I think it is an idea that should guide me and others about this life. 

It is not an easy job to reach your full potential in this life but when you keep your mind open and keep working, you will always find that you have more potentials than you can imagine if you put in work. 

Unless you are Michelle Angello, there is always a room for improvement in whatever you are pursuing or doing. I haven’t heard anyone saying or giving an idea on how the David statue would have been a better statue; may be because it is art, there is no flaw in art. The flaw is part or it is what makes art ART. I can say that the statue was so well created that until today you can’t get enough of it, you can’t help but stare at it for as long as you feel you’ve seen it all. But not all by any means.

And this idea is so applicable to young people than anyone else because we have more time than other people. That time is divided into different parts where one of them I strongly think it is time to make mistakes and time to recover. I am lucky that I am not really risk averse to some extent that I am willing to take more risks than a typical young man. I think it is pretty useful for a young person to have some willpower to take risks because the recovery is much efficient than a typical old person. 

But, BUT, the taking risks should be beneficial in the pursuit of improvement; the pursuit of being better every single step of the way. 

PS. I’ve listened to a lot of podcasts, I have read different books and got ideas; but however, to some extent I didn’t feel I have space to give an addition to the idea. I have also listened to musics, and feel that I can give my point of view on how the music would have been well produced in my taste of course, but I didn’t have the platform to do so. 

Here I am on the platform giving you what I’ve always wanted! Wanna give additions, wanna challenge the ideas here? I am happy to read your comments on these posts being published. I am all ears to your points of view as we are figuring out this together. I will read and reply to all your comments!