The educational systems followed worldwide and the persistent human culture, ensures that late bloomers are often discarded. The system lays stress on early bloomers, who ace exams and become specialists in one area. This however, ensures a lack of creativity and nimbleness. A fulfilling life may be missing. One must never condemn oneself for being late to anything. The story of geniuses like Mozart or JK Rowling clearly point out to the enduring qualities of late bloomers. A lot who experienced failure early on, use their learning to curate business innovations which specialists would be unable to conceive of. A lot of this has been explained in the book Late Bloomers written by Rich Karlgaard.

Source:https://hbr.org/2019/05/the-art-of-blooming-late

Uploaded Date:11 September 2019