Advice and opinion is always available in plenty. One of the commonly touted lines is that ‘this is not the right age for you to be working’, ‘this is the age to not have responsibility’, ‘this is the age for this’ and ‘this is the age for that’.
I’ve realized, of late. that this is bullshit.
There is no such ‘right age’. The same people who talk to you about the ‘right age’ applauded Mark Zuckerberg when he became a billionaire on paper in his mid 20s, castigated him when the facebook stock price fell, sang praises about people like Colonel Sanders who had the guts to start a new empire around fried chicken at 76.
Right age doesn’t exist. Right ‘time’ does. There is a subtle difference. Time refers to your readiness. An emotionally immature teenager may not be ready to handle the responsibilities of running a company or even the responsibility that comes with the freedom of tasting alcohol. This has less to do with age as with readiness.
This, of course, raises a natural point – isn’t there a link between age and readiness/time? Be carefree as a child, rebel as a teenager, take up responsibility as you enter your 20s, learn the ropes at work, find a spouse, get married, have kids, climb the corporate ladder or quit and start your own thing since you have experience etc.
There sure does seem to be a link as it describes the average scenario very well.
Average, of course, is a state of mind.
The only limits that exist are the ones that exist in our minds.
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