Capability

“There isn't a person anywhere that isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can.”
Henry Ford

How much are you capable of doing? Do you really know? How do you measure such a thing? Perhaps you have listened to other people tell you how smart you are, or how strong you are or how capable you are, back when you were a small child and just assumed that they knew everything about you. You figured that if your mother thought that you weren't smart, then it must be true, and this information became part of your ego. But of course, your mother, or anyone else, doesn't know any more about your capabilities than you do.

The only way you can ever really measure your capabilities is by attempting to do a thing that you think is impossible for you. It is only then that you realize that you are capable of doing a lot more than you think you can. But you may still be capable of doing even more than that.

The problem is, of course, that most people won't attempt to do something that they think that they can't do. They must be forced into doing those things for whatever reason. So most of us really don't know our true capabilities. We would be very surprised at just how capable we actually were.

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