Integrity demands all three line up and provide the red or green light on whether to proceed or change course, but always the integrity of the evaluation process will keep the venture true. Potential is maximized in this evolutionary journey as a natural outgrowth of it. There is no doubt if integrity is the compass and the guiding principal. There can be no pretense or fantasy on this journey, only honesty and dreams and goals that, in and of themselves, are ours to hold, to have and to achieve. Brain damage complicates this journey but is also speaks loudly to any pretense.
Integrity is polished by the presence of brain damage.
You have every reason to believe your potential will be realized in a much more essentially pure way because of the encephalitis. You just need to frame clearly what you want from your potential and then integrate it into your very being. It's not an outward process, it's an inward one that will yield external results.