Possibilities often reveal themselves only through the very act of realizing them

Evidence

But I can also find myself engaged in acts which reveal my possibilities to me at the very instant when they are realized. In lighting this cigarette I learn my concrete possibility, or if you prefer, my desire of smoking. It is by the very act of drawing toward me this paper and this pen that I give to myself as my most immediate possibility the act of working at this book; there I am engaged, and I discover it at the very moment when I am already throwing myself into it. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 246

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes the non-anguished mode where possibilities are disclosed through active engagement rather than anticipation.
• XREF: connects to: Possibility arises only through a being that comprehends and embodies its own possibles. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 382; The possible becomes real only through a person’s project, not as pre-existing logical possibility; Imagination precedes and produces reality rather than reflecting it — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 152 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The possible becomes real only through a person’s project, not as pre-existing logical possibility #corroborates (0.88)
• Possibility arises only through a being that comprehends and embodies its own possibles. #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 382
• Perceiving possibilities for freedom enables breaking with existing patterns. #expands (0.78) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 13
• The perceived object is always surpassed toward the self’s own possibilities #expands (0.75)
• Concepts only become effective when incorporated into sensuous existence #corroborates (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 973
• Imagination precedes and produces reality rather than reflecting it #complicates (0.72) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 152