Is Potential Overrated?

Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve will forever be one of the most intriguing conversations to have. From all walks of Life but especially in Sports and Music. Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve also represents different outlooks an I don’t know which one gets viewed as the saddest story. Let’s take Would’ve for example. Grant Hill Would’ve been a Hall Of Fame Lock. Ken Griffey Jr. Would’ve broke all the major baseball records. RG3 Would’ve Been 1 of the best QBs in the NFL. Penny Hardaway Would’ve been The Best Point Guard Ever to play in the NBA(I had to throw that in there for biased reasons lol) But you get the point. These world class athletes Would’ve gone down as consensus all time greats had it not been for tragic career altering injuries. And we can say that certainty because we saw them dominate their fields before the injuries.

But where the conversation takes a turn is the Could’ve Should’ve debate. Because a lot of us are walking around with so much Potential that we know we have but we don’t act on it. And some were so naturally gifted at a young age that we don’t know what we Could’ve did with the talent if we were disciplined. That’s why I ask is Potential overrated. Lamar Odom probably had the most Potential to be just as good if not better than Kevin Garnett who had a Hall Of Fame career. Odom was 6’10 with a point guard handle, ran like a gazelle and played the game like he knew what he was doing just came to him at birth. He never did max out that Potential and not due to a career changing injury. For whatever reason he was just good enough. And that’s something I want to dig deeper into about myself. The “Just Good Enough” conversation. Not going the extra mile to maximize my own Potential that I know is there. The Potential that people around me see and have to find themselves saying to me “Stop Bullsh*tting Blake”. The up until this point Unfulfilled Potential that led to my song “Coulda Been Kendrick”. That conversation is for a post on it’s own because it’s a back story to the song that can’t be glossed over. Potential is a very interesting thing that I don’t know if it’s Overrated or Underrated but it’s worth having a discussion about all the time.