The jaguar
The jaguar is a skilled beast. Nocturnal by nature, it prowls the Amazon rainforest for its prey. Prey that can be a significant proportion of its body mass. It then kills the prey, and carries it to a safe place so that it is not mugged of the prey. This can involve climbing trees with the prey clamped within its mouth. I doubt anyone here can climb a tree with something equaling its mass clamped within its mouth.
In essence, it is an extraordinary creature, with extraordinary attributes.
But it will still die rapidly if placed within the polar habitats, and will fail to be skilled, and maybe die at varying speeds in any other habitat it is not suited too, however amazing its skills are. The dark student is much the same; you cannot cope to achieve certain things in certain environments, and as such, it is important you place yourself in an environment to suit your abilities.
Humans live in many environments, and a very very limited number of these are beneficial. Imagine the ghetto. It has its occupiers, and it suits certain people. But I personally know so many people within it, chained to it, desperate to get out, yet without the power to get out. As dark students you have already awakened to an understanding giving you an extra tool to get yourself out of unsuitable environments.
You also need the ability to create the environment to suit you, rather than be peasant of someone else's environment. Be king of yours!
Your social environment; friends, family, associates, enemies. Which are actually beneficial to you? and which are merely a source of cheap fun? If a source of cheap fun, is this fun beneficial, and what is a suitable dose to take? How can you create this dose and make sure you don't become addicted to it or overdose upon it?
Your day to day environment; do you go to the library? do you hang around at the mall? Do you spend your time in your bedroom? in the pub? at the skatepark? in galleries? You need to assess everywhere, and see how and where you are spending your time, and if you are doing so in the right places.
Without the correct working environment, a plant will not grow from its seed into a tree. It needs many things, and so does the dark student. You can have the potential in seed form, but you need to give yourself the right habitat to work in. Once this is achieved, only then will you grow into the huge oak.