People flower at different times in their lives, sometimes later in life when one thing brings them to discover their true talents. I like reading biographies, and that's often the case.

No one has a crystal ball, particularly about another person's life. Many successful people have initially failed, didn't make the team etc.

Admittedly some of our dreams have long, difficult odds, sometimes it's advisable to have a back-up plan, but our futures are ours to create. A therapist or anyone else has no special powers to tell us what we can or can't do.