CrazyEd38239Sep 29
JA Westenberg

The myth: if you haven’t made it by 30, you’re finished.

The truth: you still have decades to do your best work.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/remember-kurt-vonnegut-was-47

Remember: Kurt Vonnegut was 47

The Long Apprenticeship

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Show threadShae ErissonSep 28
@Daojoan also, pick your own definition of "make it".
It doesn't have to include broad public acclaim, it could be "have a good stable life and take care of the people around me".
Show threadGrovewestSep 29
@shapr @Daojoan So true. When I lived past 30 I felt like I ‘made it’.
Show threadanthonySep 29
@Grovewest @shapr @Daojoan My grandfather always said he was grateful for every day over 50.
Show threadDr Andrew A. Adams #FBPE 🔶Sep 28
@Daojoan Sheri Tepper was 54 when she published her first novel. Anne Leckie was 47.
Show threadMacCruiskeenSep 29

@a_cubed @Daojoan R. A. Lafferty started writing at 45 because his doctor told him he had to stop drinking.

Emily Dickinson didn't really 'fail', she chose not to publish. She had friends in literary world who wanted her to publish more, but she was not really into it.

Show threadCrovanianSep 29
@Daojoan my professor would tell me ‘a young architect is in their 50s’
Show threadMatěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦Sep 29

@Daojoan

I was an unsuccessful lawyer turning to programming when I was 35. I love it now (many years later). The myth is absolute nonsense. The myth behind myth is that unless you are the best you are failure is also nonsense.

Saint Anselm of Cantebury was sixty, when he decided (in the eleventh century!) to start learning Greek to read Plato.

If you find yourself in the wrong hole, it is never too late to stop digging. Do what you like, and hopefully you make enough to have a living.

Show threadDeixis9Sep 29

@Daojoan

Kurt Vonnegut was 47

Show threadAntónio DominguesSep 29

@Daojoan and Saramago was Sixty.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramago

José Saramago - Wikipedia

Show threadMartin SeegerSep 29
@Daojoan My accounts were permanently in the negative until the mid-40s.