With youth: How to awaken one’s potential?

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Acharya Prashant: Just ask me how to not lie sleeping, don’t ask me how to awaken my potential.

The potential doesn’t have any habit of sleeping, you forcefully put it to sleep, intelligence is not habituated of lying dormant. You habitually put it to sleep by acts like these…