If you're dissatisfied with where you are, do something different. Get up tomorrow and start down a different path.
I had a half assed job until my mid 30s. I woke up one day and decided I want to do something different. 7 years later and I'm crushing it.
Examine where you are and ask yourself if it's not really where you want to be.
Potential is extrapolation accelerated with wishful thinking.
Those who can, do, those who can’t, don’t.
Start doing OP, otherwise your greatness will never be bigger than the tiny brain-cells it occupies
Not about external factors that you couldn't control(such as poverty, abuse, irresponsible relatives, borderline criminal behavior from institutions), that made your abilities 10x less useful in that context and your efforts 10x less efficient.
Like honestly when I describe some aspects of my life in details, people think I'm making shit up.
I'm not talking about some guys who think they're smart and don't do anything about it.
I'm talking about growing up in the worst hood in your country, not having a single young neighbor who didn't spend some time in jail, getting physically assaulted almost daily for years, dealing with racists teachers when you get into a school outside your hood, having to deal with your father's eviction notice at 14 because he's too freaking stupid to take care of it, landlords near your college rejecting you because you're not white, having to live in abject conditions just so you can go to college, actually starting college 4 months late after everyone because you couldn't find a place to live. That's not even half of it.
I don't personally know a single person(with similar mental abilities)from the middle class, or even the lower middle class, who's doing worse than me.
Second, find what you really want to be doing with your time. Remember, money isn't everything.
People fail upward all of the time. Things tend to not be fair or just. As long as I feel like I'm taking steps forward, that's all I need.
I had a terrible upbringing and I'm sure we could commiserate or compare scars, but that's not the point. The only way you get out of the storm is by not dwelling on it