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Late Bloomers The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement

Rich Karlgaard

A groundbreaking exploration of how finding one's way later in life can be an advantage to long-term achievement and happiness. We live in a society where kids and parents are obsessed with early achievement, from getting perfect scores on SATs to getting into Ivy League colleges to landing an amaz...

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty

It was discussed in relation to the pressure to achieve early in life and how it can be detrimental. The book's author is the publisher of Forbes Magazine.

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If you're feeling pressure to hurry up and find your passion or to find the one thing that drives you and to double down on it as fast as possible, you're not alone.

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It was discussed in relation to the pressure to achieve early in life and how it can be detrimental. The book's author is the publisher of Forbes Magazine.

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If you're feeling pressure to hurry up and find your passion or to find the one thing that drives you and to double down on it as fast as possible, you're not alone.

And sometimes this pressure has tragic consequences.

As Cargard writes in Late Bloomers, Now this date is from six or seven years ago and that means that a number of you were adolescents then. Even if you're a bit older, I bet those figures don't exactly surprise you.

The pressure to find that one thing you're great at and to do it fast is something most of us feel.

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