Apologies that I first thought this was copypasta.
But nothing here throws a red flag at all. And @GordoDeCentral brought up some excellent points.
"Living up to your potential" needs to be an intrinsic driver and not an extrinsic one. I've seen too many people waste their lives, chasing memetic desires, and getting completely lost in the process while supposedly achieving what they thought they so dearly wanted.
What you want is a difficult thing to answer. Few take it seriously enough. So much inner work and knowing yourself.
And you are not fixed and evolve, as you should. So you can never be perfect in progress even if you were in planning -- just because of the drift that comes with experience, exposure, learning, and maturity. But you have to start by knowing yourself deeply, working from there, but also allowing room to change.
My gut says it would be wise to try to cross-check every sense of your not living up to your potential as to whether that's an intrinsic indicator or an extrinsic one. Unhappiness is driven by extrinsic desires. Happiness is driven by intrinsic ones. Because in the end, what does "living up to your potential" matter compared to doing what you love, enjoying it, being with the people you love, and spending time on what and who you love.
It's not always the case, but potential is often the wrong yardstick.
A general rule should be:
What comes from inside yourself: good
What comes from a highly performative online influencer profiting off personal dissatisfaction of those who haven't done the internal work and questioning first: bad
But nothing here throws a red flag at all. And @GordoDeCentral brought up some excellent points.
"Living up to your potential" needs to be an intrinsic driver and not an extrinsic one. I've seen too many people waste their lives, chasing memetic desires, and getting completely lost in the process while supposedly achieving what they thought they so dearly wanted.
What you want is a difficult thing to answer. Few take it seriously enough. So much inner work and knowing yourself.
And you are not fixed and evolve, as you should. So you can never be perfect in progress even if you were in planning -- just because of the drift that comes with experience, exposure, learning, and maturity. But you have to start by knowing yourself deeply, working from there, but also allowing room to change.
My gut says it would be wise to try to cross-check every sense of your not living up to your potential as to whether that's an intrinsic indicator or an extrinsic one. Unhappiness is driven by extrinsic desires. Happiness is driven by intrinsic ones. Because in the end, what does "living up to your potential" matter compared to doing what you love, enjoying it, being with the people you love, and spending time on what and who you love.
It's not always the case, but potential is often the wrong yardstick.
A general rule should be:
What comes from inside yourself: good
What comes from a highly performative online influencer profiting off personal dissatisfaction of those who haven't done the internal work and questioning first: bad
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Where's our favourite Russian at these days, in the frontlines?
oh god. Those were the days lmao