Other people's potential depends on what you see vs what they want. I have been told a few times now that I'm wasting mine because I won't open a clinic or at least operate professionally (apparently I'm good at massage...though my type of massage is only nominally massage). I'm choosing not to because I very loosely class what I do as medical/remedial and don't believe that should be limited by money (I usually ask people I've worked on to pay it forward but sometimes they really, really want to give me something so I get paid in chocolate XD) Meanwhile I just want to be an artist.
I guess what I'm trying to say is you can really only help people if they want to be helped, and sometimes even if they will accept help you're not the kind of help they need, so either way don't feel bad, you can only do whatever it is you can do.
RE: Reflecting upon a short conversation. (U-log)