What is your wasted talent?

[calxpal]

I was great at many video games and arcade games but then my social circle fizzled and I became sad so I gave most of it up to focus on other things, but I still play a few.

I also used to do weird art but I gave it up because I got bullied over it more than once and told horrible stuff.

[#Oda#]

I don't have any wasted talent.

My biggest strength always was debate and writing and my job fits perfectly to that. I could have been a professional horse jockey though, I had real talent. But it is not a waste since being a lawyer beats being a horse rider.

Then you are very lucky.

[Scarface F]

Then you are very lucky.

I am an Aspie, we are not very talented in general. At least I was not. Except horse riding. Being female there is no bad thing since they must be very small and as light as possible.

I am very passionate about football, but I wasn't talented at all. Aspies are clumsy bunch.

[Anglo-Celtic]

I was a great baseball pitcher, and I threw with superb accuracy, distance, speed, etc.. Sadly for me, the sport involves batting and fielding too. I also had a talent for acting, dancing, singing, etc.. I guess that I'll have to vicariously live through our dog who's good at all three, but she sucks at the piano.

[oszkar07]

I used to be good at sports when younger. Could score from corner point in football/soccer, was OKish in basketball, really good at table tennis, biking, can hold my breath really long, swam fast. (Wasn't a very fast runner though)

Anyhow , I quit sports to read books and get university education, and ended up being socially a lower-than-average person, had covid, had the vaccine (all doses, neat and square), I now feed myself burgers and watch TV, and drink soda pops to spend time. Feels like success up to certain point. It's all relative imho.

What about you? Do you feel like at some point you chose the wrong path in your career? Do share if you feel like it. If not, then no problem.

I was also pretty good at soccer when younger but didn't pursue it to the potential that i had with it. My Grandfather was a significant soccer player and Coach, i will leave it there.

I was good at amateur boxing which i did competitively for 6 years. i had been offered by one trainer to turn pro starting on small club fight circuit but i didn't pursue it
because I would have had to spend a few years fighting on that circuit before i could make any decent money from it and i had started working full time and started with new girlfriend and in a band as well so boxing fell to the side by time i was 19 i quit the club.

I played music - guitar for fun and in a few different bands , i didnt take certain opportunities and didnt push this to my potential either. I didnt sacrifice things to get things as they say to get something big you have to sacrifice your time for other things. I didnt rather i did a little bit of everything instead big focus on taking my potentials to their limits.

I dropped out of a university course after a few years for various reasons at the time.

Do i regret these things and could i have achieved much more in those fields if i committed specifically to them , yes probably.

My Mother told me in hindsight as a kid she feels i had undiagnosed ADHD , i suspect i have had ADHD all my life which i have never had treatment for and i think it is something thats impacted my capacity to stay focused on things.

Despite all the above i have managed to live quite a good and full life have done lots recreational international travel over the years . i am by no means wealthy but i have a reasonably good job through years of hard work but i have had to work harder rather than smarter because i could have made better choices that in long run would have meant i could have achieved things more quickly and by working smarter than harder. Still i am very fortunate in my life even if i didnt achieve everything i possibly could have.

[Gallop]

Forget swimming, he was also a very good swimmer.

[Oghuz]

I am an almost addicted Chess player, have played it competitively but then life got busy.

Nothing else got wasted, I am trying new things with growing age.

[hazmatnik]

Music and missing to direct my intuition in a way i wanted (studied law, wanted to enter BIA, then we had 2012. elections and i left).