The Stuck Geniuses

Does the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ ever bothers you?

Some people are born with a gift.

They can do everything with a high level of skill, quality, & precision.

You can say that they are geniuses or all-rounders. 

Then some specialists are experts in their area.

These specialists can do work related to their fields well.

Some people are generalists who can do every work with an acceptable amount of quality.

But then some people are stuck in life and cannot do anything well.

Let’s make it clear that they aren’t losers in life.

They can rise to the top level and become geniuses.

They are “stuck geniuses” who do not get the opportunity to develop their charisma due to various reasons.

But often these people do not know the reason why they struggle in life.

If they did, they could free themselves and help themselves reach the top of the ladder to join the other geniuses.

Thus, we would look at all the possible reasons why these people aren’t good at anything.

If you are one of them, you can spot your reason, work on it, and achieve what you deserve in life.

So, what are the possible reasons that answer ‘Why am I not good at anything’?

Why Am I Not Good At Anything

So, let’s find the answers to the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ for you.

Anxiety & Stress

The first possible answer to the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ is your generalized anxiety and stress in life.

Anxiety and stress may engulf you in childhood due to various reasons.

It may be fear, childhood trauma due to parental fights, or bullying at school, to name a few.

When you suffer from general anxiety and stress, you won’t be able to do anything well.

Anxiety keeps you shaken from the inside and doesn’t even let you do normal tasks easily.

Stress and anxiety are a big blow to your self-confidence, focus, and your ability to concentrate on the job at hand.

They dent your ability to learn anything fast or even at a normal rate.

You won’t be able to do those things properly which you think you are good at.

Due to this your skill level keeps falling consistently.

And by the time you grow up, you are not able to do anything well.

Some of the ways to get over your anxiety & stress are meditation, breathing exercises, Yoga, physical exercise, and having a close friend whom you can open up to about your life.

When you overcome your anxiety and stress you go beyond the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’.

Self-Doubts

The second possible answer to the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ is your self-doubts.

Self-doubt is the result of anxiety, constant comparison with others or where you want to reach in life, and your past failures.

When you are full of questions regarding your ability, you are not able to trust yourself.

This distrust percolates to every area of your life.

And when you are not able to trust yourself, you cannot do anything well.

The best ways to tackle self-doubt are letting go of your past, using positive affirmations, self-talk, journaling, and prayers to enhance your self-belief, and practicing persistence in life.

When you remove your self-doubt, you go beyond the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’.

Overthinking

The next possible answer to the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ is your habit of overthinking.

Overthinking happens when you haven’t set boundaries for your thoughts.

It may also happen as a substitute for physical activity.

Thus, if you do not do enough physical activity, your mind might start running overboard.

Overthinking also symbolizes the stress within.

When you are in the habit of overthinking, you cross the positive thoughts and enter into the negative zone very quickly.

Thus, you start becoming a negative person which is not good for doing or learning anything well.

To keep overthinking at bay, practice and learn to organize your thoughts. 

You can write down your thoughts to get started.

One of the best ways to keep your thoughts under control is regular physical exercise.

You can also choose a sport of your liking and get involved in it.

When you stop overthinking, the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ won’t bother you anymore.

You Judge Yourself Unfairly

The next possible answer to the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ is that you judge yourself too much and too harshly.

It begins as a way to evaluate yourself from time to time but soon takes the form of judging yourself all the time.

When you are judging yourself all the time, there is no focus or time for progress.

Thus, you stay where you are and do not develop the required skills in life.

Thus, it’s important to minimize judging yourself to a healthy level and let yourself be.

Lack of Focus

The next possible answer to the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ is your lack of focus or concentration.

Anxiety and stress play a big role here.

Unhealthy diets also do not give you the required nutrients for better concentration and focus.

When you lack the necessary focus and concentration, you can neither learn things nor perform them well.

Poor focus and concentration keep causing distractions hence making you mentally absent in what you are doing.

You are not able to pay attention to various important details and hence are not able to do anything well.

To build focus and concentration, you should eat healthy food and practice mental exercises.

Lack of Motivation

The next possible answer to the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ is your lack of motivation or interest in things or life in general.

Motivation is something that needs to be developed in life.

You have to keep working on it consistently.

When you don’t have motivation in life or while doing something, you do things half-heartedly.

You would lose interest in everything you try to do, very quickly.

When you don’t have the intensity that comes only with motivation, you won’t be able to do anything well.

To build motivation you can read the success stories of famous people in your field.

You can also take inspiration from your surroundings by finding people who excel at what they do.

You Haven’t Found Your Passion

The next possible answer to the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ is that you haven’t found your passion yet.

Passion is something that you enjoy doing.

It is the best job you can choose as your profession.

But probably you still haven’t found it or you are not pursuing it.

Sometimes, your ability to be good at everything you do in life depends upon whether you are following your passion.

So, find your passion and stick with it for the rest of your life.

It would make you good at what you do as a profession which would also open the paths to doing everything else well in life.

Unrealistic Expectations From Self

The next possible answer to the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ is your unrealistic expectations of yourself.

You may be good at many things but you have the bar too high for yourself.

Maybe you are assessing your performance by keeping perfection as the yardstick.

In such case, anything you do would not be good enough for you.

It is also very very unfair to yourself.

So, make your performance and goals practical and more realistic and you will realize that you are good at many things in life.

You Give Up Too Soon

The next possible answer to the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ is that you give up too soon.

To learn or perform any activity well, you need a lot of positivity, patience & persistence.

You don’t have to give up until you succeed.

But maybe you are giving up a little too early which hasn’t let you develop your skills properly.

Thus, give sufficient time to yourself and the things you do, and you will be able to do them well.

Fear of Failure

The next possible answer to the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ is your fear of failure.

Do you worry whether you will be able to do a particular task well even before you start it?

If you do then you have a fear of failure which is very bad for doing things well.

When fear of failure is in mind, no other result is possible.

It’s like losing without even fighting the battle.

Thus, stop thinking about failures and focus on the process.

When the process is the front end of your thoughts while doing any task, you are sure to do it well.

Focusing on the process lets you be in the moment which is the key to doing anything to the best of your ability.

Multitasking

The next possible answer to the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ is your habit of multitasking.

Multi-tasking is considered to be a necessary skill today.

People are even proud of this skill of theirs.

But the reality is that when you try to multitask, your focus is divided and spread over many things in a given moment.

Lower focus means lower quality of work which keeps getting progressively lower with time as the pressure to multitask keeps rising on you.

Thus, multitasking doesn’t let you do anything well.

It consumes you over time rather than growing your skills.

Thus, focus on one task at a given moment and the quality of your work will keep rising consistently.

This way you can become good at doing one or more jobs based on your preference.

Thus, giving up the habit of multitasking will take you beyond the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’.

Conditioning

The next possible answer to the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ is your conditioning to believe so.

Was your childhood difficult?

Wasn’t anything you did, good enough for your parents?

Did no one believe in you and your abilities?

If yes, it must have been a really difficult childhood.

But the impact of it hasn’t left you till now.

When nobody thinks that you are good enough, unfortunately, you start believing so as well.

And when you grow up you still get influenced or affected by people’s opinions about you.

Change this conditioning of your mind.

Show some self love to yourself.

Recondition your mind based on your own rules that suit and serve you well.

Tell yourself that you are great at whatever you do.

Give yourself treats when you do things well.

When you change the conditioning of your mind, you will know that you are a lot more than what you thought earlier.

Thus, recondition your mind so that the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ doesn’t bother you.

Lack of A Developed Personal Style

The next possible answer to the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ is the non-development of your unique style of doing things.

When you do not have your own way of doing things, your tasks do not have a particular structure.

And work without a developed framework behind it is bound to collapse or at least look shabby to you.

It would not give you the confidence that good works give to their doer.

So, find yourself and your unique style of doing things.

It would make you feel even the not-so-good works of yours great to you, just because they are supported by a developed structure.

It would give you the feel and the confidence that you are good at whatever you do.

You Are Too Theoretical

The next possible answer to the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ is you being more theoretical than practical.

When you are used to thinking a lot and working less on the ground level, you tend to become more theoretical.

You have ideas and notions about the tasks you have to perform.

But when you start working on the ground, you feel stuck or get blank because your theoretical ideas aren’t of much help.

To do something well, you have to execute things well and be ready to improvise in the moment of truth.

Thus, you need to stop relying on your ideas and start working on the ground more.

It would allow you to develop perception and ground knowledge of doing things.

And when you are practical in your approach while doing things, you would become good at performing them.

Thus, becoming more practical would rid you of the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’.

Lack of Planning & Practice

The next possible answer to the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ is your lack of planning and practice before starting the actual work.

The preparation of any work is very important and plays a big role in doing it well.

But when you do not prepare well, it’s natural to not do the task well.

Thus, first, brainstorm and think of all the things you have to do under a given task.

Think of its possible details and visualize yourself doing it.

Then, before you do the actual work, practice some simulations.

The more you simulate, the better would be your chance to do that particular task well.

Thus, proper planning and sufficient practice let you prepare well and hence perform anything well.

When you plan and practice well, the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ stops bothering you.

Too Much Focus On Results

The next possible answer to the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ is that you focus more on the results than the process.

Many times when we become extremely goal-oriented, focus on the process is compromised altogether.

And when we are not focused on the process, we are not able to do the task well.

Thus, balanced attention between the goal and the process is important.

When the process or the journey is given its due importance, we excel at doing jobs of all kinds.

Fear of Success

The next possible answer to the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ is your fear of success.

When you succeed, you can no longer be the same person you used to be before.

You have to become a transformed individual who is more evolved and responsible than before.

Some people subconsciously develop a fear of this added responsibility that comes with success.

So, they do not work in a way that would give them success.

When you are not good at anything, it may be a sign of the fear of success while doing things.

Thus, you have to accept the higher responsibility that is associated with success.

When you overcome the fear of success, you become good at doing many things.

Unlock Your Brilliance

‘Why am I not good at anything’ is a question that shakes you to your core. 

When you are a genius but remain stuck at a basic level in life, your self love also suffers immensely.

You have to go through a lot of pain and trauma despite having almost everything that is needed for a fulfilled life.

Thus, you must find the reason behind you not being good at anything.

Once you know the reason, you can work on it and eliminate it from your life.

This would allow you to unleash your potential & efficiency and become brilliant at everything you do.

And as a genius like that, your self love would be sky-high which would make your life the best it could ever be. 

So, figure out your answer to the question ‘Why am I not good at anything’ and fill your life with self love.