"There is some version of being potentia that I think I can move into and it's figuring out how to shift from this space into that space."
McEvoy heard the term working with depth-psychology material (Steven Polansky, Jung-adjacent tradition). In the Aquatic Sports Performance interview, the host restates it as "you're pursuing potential" and McEvoy responds "literally, actually it literally is one to one to that."
Operational shape in athletic context
The training is the medium through which the potentia is approached. The 21.0 is a side effect of the meta-game of self-actualisation, not the meta-game itself.
McEvoy: "I have a goal of something to do. Right now it happens to be swimming really fast, but it could be literally any form of movement or something with a human body."
"There's this passion or like creativity in the sense of moving from where I am now and then changing myself physically and mentally to get to the point that allows me to do whatever I want to do."
Cross-domain resonance
Chiseling David (the host's framing McEvoy agreed with) — Michelangelo's approach to sculpture: remove what isn't David, not add material.
Jung's individuation — the lifelong process of becoming who you already are.
Stoic practitioner-athletes (Marcus Aurelius reframed as training methodology) — the daily practice is the practice, the race is the artefact.
In the brain
2026-06-20 | Referenced in Cameron Mcevoy — McEvoy's personal-myth answer
2026-06-20 | Referenced in Personal Myth Jung — paired concept (potentia is the target, personal myth is the through-line)