Mar 22, 2015 4:00 AM GMT
NYT: Conventional wisdom holds that if you do not write your “Farewell to Arms,” paint your “Starry Night,” start the next Twitter or climb Mount Everest by young adulthood, or at least middle age, then chances are you will never do it.
But that idea is becoming increasingly outdated as people are not only having successes later in life, but blooming in areas they never expected. Maybe they are not making millions, or wielding a brush like Rembrandt. Still, many people are discovering that the latter part of their lives can be just as (or even more) rewarding creatively, emotionally and spiritually.
Examples of later-in-life triumphs abound. Ernestine Shepherd, for example, began bodybuilding (and running marathons) at age 56. Diana Nyad swam from Cuba to Florida at 64, after several attempts. Harland Sanders started his KFC empire in his 60s. Frank McCourt won a Pulitzer Prize for “Angela’s Ashes” when he was 66. Jurgen Schmidt, a retiree in Huntington Beach, Calif., and a Senior Masters swimmer, recently starred in a three-minute video for Speedo.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/21/your-money/finding-success-well-past-the-age-of-wunderkind.html
But that idea is becoming increasingly outdated as people are not only having successes later in life, but blooming in areas they never expected. Maybe they are not making millions, or wielding a brush like Rembrandt. Still, many people are discovering that the latter part of their lives can be just as (or even more) rewarding creatively, emotionally and spiritually.
Examples of later-in-life triumphs abound. Ernestine Shepherd, for example, began bodybuilding (and running marathons) at age 56. Diana Nyad swam from Cuba to Florida at 64, after several attempts. Harland Sanders started his KFC empire in his 60s. Frank McCourt won a Pulitzer Prize for “Angela’s Ashes” when he was 66. Jurgen Schmidt, a retiree in Huntington Beach, Calif., and a Senior Masters swimmer, recently starred in a three-minute video for Speedo.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/21/your-money/finding-success-well-past-the-age-of-wunderkind.html