Good at many things/Great at nothing... Is this a common problem?

[Big Poppa Smurf]

Mecca,

if you really think you have the potential for greatness, get off your ass and do something. you sound like you are scared to fail. the upside to this is that you will start trying lots of new things, and may find that thing that does spark you.

[MegaloMialo]

It's naive, to, in these days believe that we can enter the path to greatness in the later stage of our life’s.
If you are to succeed you must have that extraordinary gift of some kind and must as well be sure in your on mind that you are and if not are will be the best.
You will never be great because you lack passion and dedication.

[Orlando Salazar]

Advice: Eat well and get a bunch of sunlight. Seriously, it will make a world of differerence (medically proven). Then workout for 3 weeks making very small improvements everyday (no weights, just stretching, running, pushups, pullups, situps). Socialize with new people for 3 weekends. Every night before you sleep, WRITE DOWN what you'd like to accomplish in life and why. I bet $100 if you do this you will have improved willpower and focus, enabling yourself to overcome that fear of failure.

[skeetm0n]

There always is someone else better than you, this is true. I think this feeling of being "OK" at everything is very inaccurate. I think it only seems this way because we push ourselves to compete with tougher and tougher opponents. We keep doing this until we've reached a point where we cant beat our opponents anymore which will inevitably happen to us all(with the exception of a very small few like tiger woods or roger federer. It is this dead end we hit that makes us think we're just, "OK".

"World class" is a relative term i think. For example i would consider a pitcher on a minor league baseball team world class, but i bet that pitcher considers himself "ok" since there are better pitchers than he and he's not in the majors.

[Vraket]

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It's naive, to, in these days believe that we can enter the path to greatness in the later stage of our life’s.
If you are to succeed you must have that extraordinary gift of some kind and must as well be sure in your on mind that you are and if not are will be the best.
You will never be great because you lack passion and dedication.

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you're naive.

He's not talking about becoming the best in the world. He is talking about achieving a goal. Fullfilling something, not give up half way as usual, find your 'thing'. Etc etc.

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But, i'm meaning in this post what is it that separates those that are great from those who have the potential to be?

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Passion for what you do