> You look like you're going to spend your life having one epiphany after another, always thinking you've finally figured out whats holding you back and how you can be productive and creative and finally turn your life around. But nothing will ever change. That cycle of mediocrity is'nt due to some obstacle.Its who you are.
This is precisely what I've realized about people and famous cliches like "you can do anything you set your mind to". The problem is that it's not true for most people. People's aspirations rarely match what their capabilities are. They do match in the case of the few who succeed, and that's who we hear these cliches from.
I wrote about this exact issue here http://andrewoneverything.com/life-is-exactly-what-you-make-... ("Life is exactly what you make of it - For most people, this is a bad thing"). There's a poem at the end of the post that exactly matches the sentiment I quote at the beginning of this post.