What to Do in Your 20s Instead of Hustling and Making Money
There Is No Shame In a Slow Climb
We were told to ‘hustle’. We were scammed.
Why is early success so glorified these days?
No matter where you look, it seems that the earlier you ‘win’ at life — the better.
The media glorifies success. You log on to any decent website to read something about your area (i.e., Fast Company for business, Wired for tech, and so on) and you are immediately bombarded with those Buzzfeed-style headlines:
“This 15-Year-Old Makes $2M per year on a weekly newsletter.”
“College Dropout Makes Millions On This Simple App”
“Peter Thiel Invests In This Twenty-Year-Old”
All of this creates a false image of what success looks like.
If 50 years ago, when you thought of the word ‘successful,’ you thought about a 60-year-old man with a cigar and whiskey in your hand, the first image you get today is that of a young, skinny coder who raised a lot of money from people in Silicon Valley.
Successful people used to be mature like good wine that gets better with age. To continue the wine analogy, now we’re supposed to become bottles of cheap, sugary wine.
