The biggest enemy is unrealized potential.

You can never realize 100% of your potential, but you sure can work towards it and obsess over it.

The only people who come close to realizing their full potential are those who obsess over it.

To obsess over your potential, you must never be satisfied/overly happy/proud/indulgent in where you already reached to. Instead, you must remind yourself of how far you have left to go.

The only people who will do this are those who want it badly enough.
Such people would be truly bothered by wasted potential.

This applies to an individual, a project, or a business.

You can be everything you want to be.
The only question is how badly do you want it?

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I don’t know how to explain it – it really gets on my nerves and truly bothers me.

I absolutely hate it when someone is not living up to their potential, or when a project is not capturing more of the market demand, or when a product is not doing the things that its users want it to do.

I suspect this could be what sets me apart from a lot of people. I’m never satisfied, because I always look at the potential that hasn’t been captured yet.

When someone is happy with their accomplishment, I’m obsessing over how I can capture the remaining potential.

When I’m done, I move on. But if there’s still potential left, you won’t see me celebrating.

Some might find this to be a miserable way to live, because guess what? There’s always unrealized potential to be upset about. But I find joy in getting closer and closer to that potential.

If more people believed this, then I think we can accomplish many more luxuries as the human race much faster.

I think this should bother more people.

How much of your potential are you truly capturing?