Great article!
As a society with too much emphasis on accelerationism and productivity, I think we glorified the success and achievements at young age. It could be seen as a bad thing, as it might put a lot of pressure on young people and punishes (unforgivingly sometimes,) the middle aged people culturally and socially, for taking a single mis step in their youth. But I wonder if we normalize the fact that anyone can start their career or other aspects of life from scratch at any age, will it make people to just slack off and postpone things? Will we just keep on postponing things if society is so lenient and uncompetitive?
The only possible thing that I could think of is that rather than looking at the achievements of the young age, (whether the writer published a novel within 30), can we just look at how much a person progressed towards their goals, which might eventually lead to achievement at any later point of life.
This is bit tangential to the topic. I think we need to devise some kind of incentive centered around progress, rather than, the end results of progress. Because the end results can be gamed with, at some instances. But progress can't be gamed with, as you need to show the consistent effort put into it. Though, I am not sure how to measure and show progress in a different way other than end results, in all cases.
The only possible thing that I could think of is that rather than looking at the achievements of the young age, (whether the writer published a novel within 30), can we just look at how much a person progressed towards their goals, which might eventually lead to achievement at any later point of life.
This is bit tangential to the topic. I think we need to devise some kind of incentive centered around progress, rather than, the end results of progress. Because the end results can be gamed with, at some instances. But progress can't be gamed with, as you need to show the consistent effort put into it. Though, I am not sure how to measure and show progress in a different way other than end results, in all cases.