6 People Who Aren’t J.K. Rowling That Found Ridiculous Success A Lot Later In Life
Forget the pressure to succeed as a naive 20-year-old.
If we let ourselves get carried away by what is presented to us at the click of a mouse, we’d think every young 20 year old in the world was succeeding — with us as the exception.
All it takes is looking a little closer and reading between the lines to find you’re often myopically presented with the outlying stories about people who’ve happened to make it big super young.
Mass-produced lists like Forbes “30 Under 30” and “Promising Young Hollywood Stars” abound. These lists, at face value, are deceiving. They only tell you half, if that, of their unique story (which are often largely influenced by luck) and fail to highlight the much more abounding failures out there.
From a strictly marketing standpoint, feeding us these carefully curated compilations of success makes sense. But on a granular level, it does little to move the needle for everyone else — especially when you talk about perspective and how easy it is to lose it.
With this, it is too easy to get carried away thinking that becoming a grandiose success in your 20’s is not only normal, but expected.
