alt Hacker NewsYes, and that’s also why “career success” here really only means “modern era white collar career success”. In other times and other fields it can look very different.
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umeshunni • today at 6:54 PM
Yes - I suspect this doesn't apply to blue collar or fields like art and sports.
This definitely is not true, outside of physical domains.
I chose a random domain (philosophers writing their seminal work) and found that most wrote them in their 40s. Kant wrote the critique of pure reason at 57 years old!