| This whole week has me ruminating on a big problem. So many people think "it's too late for me." "It's too late for me to start that business." "It's too late for me to go back to school." "It's too late for me to get back in shape." "It's too late for me to ever play basketball again." Living in a world with social media makes this even more widespread because you're seeing everyone's wins. You're seeing people half your age making millions or performing great feats of physicality. You're reading so-called experts who say that if you haven't done this or that by age 42, you won't ever do it. I didn't get my big break until I was 65 years old. 65 is when I'm supposed to retire. 65 is when I'm supposed to have given up decades ago. Hell, you're supposedly "too late" if you haven't struck it big by 40. That conventional wisdom is absolute nonsense. You can't do everything, of course. There are logistical and biological limits to our ability to change reality. But there's a LOT of wiggle room. Besides, big breaks are relative. Not everyone gets an objectively big break or a big win that causes people to envy them or think "why not me?" But you can keep pushing (or start pushing), or you can give up and let entropy dissolve you. If you give up, if you accept that "it's too late for me," guess what? It will happen. Your subconscious will submit to entropy. Your organs and brain and cells and nervous system will resign themselves to fading away. Don't do that. It's not too late. It may be "too late" for certain things, but it's never too late to make progress, to improve yourself, to improve your life and the life of those you care most about. Keep going! What do you think? Let me know in this week's New and Noteworthy. | 