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The Upside of Being a Late Bloomer
This sort of life is based on the concept of transformation: we will not do one thing for our whole career. More of us work independently, have freelance or portfolio careers, change industries, change specialisms. Being a late bloomer is no longer going to be such a minority pursuit.
Henry Oliver • Second Act
Contrary to what we see and hear, reaching your potential isn’t even something that usually happens in your twenties—it happens in your thirties or forties or fifties.
Meg Jay • The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now
Karl Pillemer, Interview No. 2
fs.blogLate bloomers don’t often know what they’re preparing for. They work blindly towards their goals. Their career paths are meandering, exploratory, restricted, or full of failure. They learn in this phase, developing the skills and knowledge they will use later, but they don’t always have an end point in mind.
And yet had Van Gogh died at thirty-four rather than thirty-seven (life expectancy in the Netherlands when he was born was forty), he might not even merit a historical footnote. The same goes for Paul Gauguin, a painter who briefly lived with Van Gogh and innovated a style known as synthetism, in which bold lines separated sections of brilliant col
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