First of all, be careful about the "massive amount of potential" feeling. Most of the time, this an exaggerated impression created by all the "you are a winner, you can do anything" crap that we have been given since we were toddlers. And who gave us that crap? foids. Our mothers, female teachers, social workers, psycho-babblers and the media all want us to believe that we are super talented. Why? Because it makes them feel better than telling us the truth: "you are a loser and you life is over before it began" So they keep on lying and making all kids and teenagers believe that they have huge potential. It is also a scam: "you have massive potential, but you will realize it only if you do what I tell you to do" Does that ring a bell? Foids have been using the trick on a massive scale over the past 50 years in order to manipulate their kids, pupils, etc.
Second problem: nobody can realize their potential nowadays. Our society is sick and decaying. Increasingly, it has become impossible to do anything except working like a robot within a predefined setting. What people like Henry Ford or Albert Einstein did in the early 20th century has become completely impossible nowadays. During the internet bubble of the late 90s, a few guys managed to do real new things: Facebook, Amazon, Google and a few others. Granted, these guys went on to become billionaires from scratch. But how many did achieve than? About a dozen guys in total. And in all other sectors, this kind of thing has been completely impossible for well over 50 years. Have you noticed also that we have not been doing anything significant in space exploration for several decade? And why is it that we are basically driving the same cars and flying in the same air planes that we already had in the 60s?
The cause of this? foids. Foids are not interested in new things. All they want is clothes, makeup, fashion and ... security. What foids have been clamouring for since after WWII is security, security, security. Son now, whenever you want to do anything you have to go through millions of pages of regulations enacted by politicians in response to foids' demands to make everything super safe. That's all they want. No risk, nothing new. They are not interested in any of that.
Bottom line: foids are making you believe that you have "huge potential" while at the same time making sure that you will face so many hurdles that it will be absolutely impossible for you to do anything with your "potential"
Nice, as usual. Thanks foids, the empathetic gender ...
So don't worry too much about your wasted potential, brocel. First of all, you probably have less than you have been made to believe and second of all there is absolutely no opportunity for you to do anything with whatever real potential you have.