Here, Read This: “It’s Never Too Late to Start a Brilliant Career.”

I’ve written before that no matter where you are in your career, you’re not behind. Here’s another perspective on that idea, from author and former Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard:

How we evaluate young people places needless emotional burdens on families and has helped to spur an epidemic of anxiety and depression among teens and young adults. The effort to forge young people into wunderkinds is making them fragile and filling them with self-doubt: It suggests that if you haven’t become famous, reinvented an industry or banked seven figures while you’re still in you’re twenties, you’ve somehow off track. But the basic premise is wrong: Early blooming is not a requirement for lifelong accomplishment and fulfillment.

Read the whole essay here.