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You can do anything you want. I switched at 27, with 5 years experience teaching at college and a masters degree in Biology/Chemistry. I jumped into computers. If I get sick of computers I'll do something else.
Time is only a factor for retirement. Your career will mostly be forgotten when you retire anyway.
I'm 60. I've probably done my most meaningful work, in the last 15 years. I feel that I learn more quickly -and better- than I ever did, when I was younger. It's hard to get 10K hours into anything , these days, as tech is a moving target, but it's doable. Being OCD (like me) is helpful. These days, I specialize in Swift programming, for Apple devices. I'm really obsessive about it (My GH Activity Graph is solid gree…
The Gladwell book is so bad it's laughable. It's a gross misrepresentation of the work of Anders Ericsson, with completely unfounded extrapolations. So bad it prompted Ericsson to get a non-academic writer to work with him to write his own popular science version of his work, which is titled "Peak". Outliers is the worst example I know of of popular authors bending facts to make a narrative they want to tell. In a nu…
Why doesn't that count as practice?
It's woefully insufficient for such success, one also needs 'talent', which is a fuzzy but real measure of the inherent ability one has.
So it's probably too late for golf and concert piano, these might make great hobbies, but you won't be playing the Masters or Carnegie Hall. Very likely, it wouldn't have mattered when you started, or how hard you worked, for those goals. Maybe you've got what it takes, but most people don't, so it's accordingly unlikely.
That leaves almost everything else. If you're in good health, have the hustle and drive, why not? 43 is about median for successful new business founders, YN demographics notwithstanding.
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My favorite Gladwell book to rip on is Blink. It is 296 pages long and the main point was one only needs a few moments to understand complicated things.
I haven't read the Blink yet. I will try to read it in the near future. Thanks for mentioning it.
Picking some examples where people made split second decisions that are correct is so silly it’s weird that the book even exists much less is a bestseller. It’s basic premise is that people make split second decisions but never goes into whether these are correct or incorrect.
So it boils down to “sometimes people choose right” as it that was somehow novel or useful.
He’s a fun storyteller but dangerous when people believe and make decisions based on his writings.
The Gladwell book is so bad it's laughable. It's a gross misrepresentation of the work of Anders Ericsson, with completely unfounded extrapolations. So bad it prompted Ericsson to get a non-academic writer to work with him to write his own popular science version of his work, which is titled "Peak". Outliers is the worst example I know of of popular authors bending facts to make a narrative they want to tell. In a nu…
> (ie the Beatles example is complete bullshit, gigs are not practice) Why doesn't that count as practice?
Mind you, there can be some value in repetition starting out especially if you make regular minor adjustments. But for someone already at a high skill level, just doing the same old activity probably won't help their skills much.
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I haven't read the Blink yet. I will try to read it in the near future. Thanks for mentioning it.
I think you should try to not read it as it’s bogus. Picking some examples where people made split second decisions that are correct is so silly it’s weird that the book even exists much less is a bestseller. It’s basic premise is that people make split second decisions but never goes into whether these are correct or incorrect. So it boils down to “sometimes people choose right” as it that was somehow novel or usefu…