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“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein
Human capital is defined as a measure of the economic value that individuals provide through their various skillsets. The term ‘human capital’ was coined by economist Theodore Shultz who believed that it was like any other type of capital. He argued that we have the ability to invest in ourselves through continued education and training specific to our areas of expertise.
The truth, though, is that human capital cannot be defined in economic terms. What we are able to accomplish is 100% dependent upon how we see our self-worth. The value we are able to provide to our organizations, as well as to our communities, is only limited by how valuable we see ourselves.
Often, it is when we compare our abilities to those around us that we are blinded by the unique characteristics that allow us to provide value to the group as a whole. There once was an old man who had to walk two miles each day in order to gather water for his family. He would collect water with two pots that each would hang off of one side of a wooden pole that, after many years of work, fit snuggly between his neck and shoulder blades. One pot was fully intact and when he arrived home it would be full of water, while the other pot had a crack in it which meant that it would only be half full upon his return.
One day the cracked pot spoke to the old man about how disappointed he was because of his inability to carry as much water as his counterpart. The old man knew of the pot’s shortcomings and asked if it noticed the newly sprouted flowers along the pathway to and from the well. The pot noticed them and was momentarily pleased but soon fell back into despair.
The old man explained that he knew of the crack in its side and had planted seeds on the side of the path that he knew the pot would be carried on. The seeds were germinated and new life was born because of the crack, not because the pot was fully intact. The water that had seeped out from the crack in the pot had not gone to waste because the man used the pot’s weakness as a strength.
The strongest asset we will ever have is the realization that what makes us unique is what increases the collective human capital. We are all valuable because of our ability to improve the quality of life for those around us, but only when we are able to see strength in what others would deem to be weakness.
One way in which we can increase the value that we provide to humanity is by creating something tangible. We need to write, paint, or build with our own two hands something that we are passionate about. And through our creation we tell our story. The importance does not lie only in what we create but in how we show others that they have the ability to create something special as well.
Once we realize what we want to create, we need to split our time between building that which we believe in, and creating content about our process. A great way to do that is to highlight individuals and companies that align with your values and provide you inspiration along your journey. We need to show how our human capital is directly correlated to the knowledge that we are provided through the capital of others.
The question will always be: what should we create? The answer will be at the intersection of what we are most passionate about and how we can best impact the lives of those around us. The best inspiration lies in our ability to show others that we are all geniuses in our own unique way. If we all had the same knowledge and skillsets, there would be a lack of diversity which beautifies our world. It is what makes us different that allows us to provide value to others.
But if we judge ourselves only by what others are able to accomplish we are blinded to how important our specific skillsets truly are. We owe it our communities to take stock of who we are and of what we are able to create so that we can affect lasting change for those now, and for those yet to come.
A fish may not be able to climb a tree, but when put in water, it can swim the seven seas. How we see ourselves, how we view our self-worth, can be our strongest asset or our greatest weakness. What it takes is realizing that how we see ourselves determines how we see the world, and how we are able to take care of it.
It is when we view our weaknesses as strengths that we see through the looking glass of ourselves for the first time. You are strong and beautiful because you are you.
(Beauty does not lie in the eye of the beholder, it lies in how we see ourselves.)
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