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“It’s never too late to start X” is awful advice. They always share some stupid outlier anecdote like “best-selling novelist who started writing at 75 and won Pulitzer at 80” and it’s always either a lie (oh you failed to mention she was an editor age 30-75) or a weird anomaly.
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would you say that concerted cultivation (e.g. parents pushing kids into a billion extracurriculars) is overall the best parenting style compared to making your kid a soccer star/one trick pony from age 3, or letting them discover their big passion on their own?
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that makes sense. I was in the elite prep school to college ecosystem for a long time, and it’s tempting to want option 2. Those kids tend to be the most outwardly successful, and while some burn out, others end up living super exciting lives. “I’m glad my dad forced me”
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In my own case, I think I have my “thing” now, and my parents raised me with option 3, but not sure if age 22 is considered on time or late. and coming to my thing was partly cutting my losses with things like sports, where you really have to be young
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