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Brian Buffini discusses the importance of recognizing and utilizing one's potential to avoid frustration and mediocrity.

Click here to watch on YouTube You know you’re capable of more. But what happens when you don’t use the potential you’ve been given? In this episode of The Brian Buffini Show, Brian explains why untapped potential isn’t harmless. When your natural gifts and abilities go unused, they can eventually become a source of frustration, self-doubt, fear and mediocrity. Click here to get your free RealStrengths Assessment Brian shares the three elements that can help you become more of who you were designed to be: embrace your gifts, leverage your skills and lean into your design. He explains how to recognize abilities that may come so naturally you don’t even realize they’re strengths, why your greatest gift can also become a blind spot and why talent alone will never replace developing your craft. Then, in Ask Brian, Brian and Ethan explore the “tuning fork moments” that can reveal what you’re naturally built to do, why some extraordinarily talented people never fulfill their potential and how fear causes people to bury the very gifts they’ve been given. You’ll also hear how coaches, mentors and the people around you can help reveal strengths you may not see in yourself—and Brian shares…

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