You see the potential in others. Very often, in fact, potential is all you see. In your view no individual is fully fonned. On the contrary, each individual is a work in progress, alive with possibilities. And you are drawn toward people for this very rea- son. When you interact with others, your goal is to help them experience success. You look for ways to challenge them. You devise interesting experiences that can stretch them and help them grow. And all the while you are on the lookout for the signs of growth-a new behavior learned or modified, a slight improvement in a skill, a glimpse of excellence or of "flow" where previously there were only halting steps. For you these small increments-invisible to some-are clear signs of poten- tial being realized. These signs of growth in others are your fuel. They bring you strength and satisfaction. Over time many will seek you out for help and encourage- ment because on some level they know that your helpfulness is both genuine and ful- filling to you. 

Developer sounds like this: 
Marilyn K., college president: "When it's graduation time and a nursing student walks across the stage, it's usually a woman around thirty-five, She gets her diploma, and about eighteen rows back some little kid is standing on a chair with a group yelling, 'Yeah, Mom!' I love that, I cry every time," 
John M., advertising executive: "I'm not a lawyer, doctor, or candlestick maker, My skills are of a different type, They have to do with understanding people and mo- tives, and the pleasure I get is from watching people discover themselves in ways they never thought possible and from finding people who bring talents to the table that I don't have." 
Anna G., nurse: "I had a patient, a young woman, with lung damage so bad that she will have to be on oxygen forever, She will never have the energy or the strength to live a normal life, and I walk in and she's desperate, She doesn't know if she is short of breath because she is anxious, or anxious because'she is short of breath. And she's talking suicide because she can't work, can't support her husband, So I got her thinking about what she could do rather than what she couldn't, It turns out that she is very creative with arts and crafts, so I told her, 'Look, there are things you can do, and if those things bring you pleasure, then do them, It's a place to start,' And she cried and said, 'I have the energy to wash only one bowl,' 1 said, 'That's today, To- morrow you can wash two.' And by Christmas time she was making all kinds of things and selling them, too,"