Early conceptions of human potential suggested that the full potential of any person was innate in that person from before their birth, possibly from the moment of their conception.Ken Richardson, The Origins of Human Potential: Evolution, Development and Psychology (1998), p. 2. More recent definitions have encompassed both internal and societal influences.Jana Gašparíková, "Human Potential and Social Equilibrium", in Józef Tischner, Józef Życiński, and George F. McLean, eds., The Philosophy of Person: Solidarity and Cultural Creativity (1994), p. 195.
