How To Realise Your Potential
For most if not all of my school life, I was told that I ‘could do better’. This despite the fact that for most of my subjects, I tended to be in the higher attainment classes, especially for the subjects I enjoyed.
Over the years, I’ve come to see that this essentially negative comment, was just another way of saying ‘has lots of potential’. At the time, however, I didn’t see this as a positive assessment of my abilities and instead took it as a criticism, thinking I wasn’t behaving as I should have been.
My teachers’ assurances that I had some buried potential didn’t really make much sense to me in those teenage years, and no one ever really sat me down and explained where I was wasting my potential. In a nutshell, I just didn’t really understand what the cryptic message meant!
With hindsight of course and with the benefit of maturity it seems obvious, but I wonder to what extent it really is that obvious?
Because knowing how to realise your potential can lead to the kind of breakthroughs, successes and life changes that you just don’t see most people achieving. And surely, if most people aren’t achieving the life they openly or secretly want, then how can it really be that you know how to realise your potential?
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