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Have you wasted your potential? If so, does that bother you?

Asked by Jeruba (55829points) September 3rd, 2013

Teachers, parents, and others seem to love to tell us about our potential. They also typically reflect a common attitude that along with our potential comes an obligation to use it in some (personally, economically, societally, etc.) beneficial way.

Do you agree with this view? Does it bother you if you haven’t “fulfilled your potential”? Are you still planning on doing it?

Have you laid this fulfillment-of-potential trip on others even if you haven’t lived up to your own? If so, what about that inconsistency?

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