Just wanted to point out that assuming careers and business success follows into a normal distribution is probably a poor assumption. Given the tremendous successes and wealth some people have created for themselves, the average working person is essentially just a few steps above zero. I know a few millionaires, but I don't know anyone who is personally in debt millions of dollars (although I'm sure they exist) with no hope/skills/connection to make money again, as they obviously had something going on to get in that position in the first place.
There is a quote by Donald Trump, something about how during one of his darker moments in his business life, he walked by a homeless guy on the street, and thought "that guy is worth a billion dollars more than I am". Obviously that is true on paper, but the homeless guy also did not have the resources to get their in the first place, much less make it back and become successful.
I'm about to turn 30 years very shortly here, so this is from my perspective. Years ago, after college, I spent most of my traveling around various places in the world across all of the continents, trying my hand at a few businesses, some which worked and some which some failed miserably, and chasing women. I think if you travel, chase money, and chase women, all in equal balance with none at the expenses of the other, you will most likely not have any regrets ten years from now unless you get a girl pregnant, then all bets are off. As you progress in age, you may learn to make the mix more efficient by realizations such as "if you are successful chasing money, you spend much less time chasing women, as they then chase you". Money and women have been sought after by men for thousands of years, and while today's modern intellectual man may find it simplistic and barbaric, there is nothing wrong with satiating your appetite for what you were naturally programmed to do, be an animal. You can learn a lot from rappers, they have the basic idea figured out. Knock the top few layers off Maslow's hierarchy of needs and you have a higher likelihood of being happy. Just my humble opinion.
