Potential is a compliment for about three years. After that people start asking what you did with it.

Being told you could do anything feels good and it has a quiet expiry date. Potential is a prediction, and predictions eventually get compared against results. That is not cruelty, it is just what happens when the years that were supposed to hold the work go by.

Pick the thing people keep saying you could be good at. Give it real hours this month rather than treating it as a fact about you. Evidence is more comfortable to carry around than a compliment.