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Why Potential is a Trap For High Achievers

For high achievers haunted by unspent potential.

Mike Brown and Kevin Dahlstrom · Jul 20, 2026 · 10 min

About this episode

Kevin admits he has long felt his potential was large and unspent. Mike argues that potential recedes every time you reach for it, so measuring against it guarantees falling short.

They discuss whether clean fuel burns as hot as dirty fuel, and how making a goal inevitable and irrelevant becomes one practice.

Key takeaways

More from The Inner Circle: all episodes. Mike’s book Be Rich Now covers the same ground in depth.