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Members of the global creative class live in great confusion about what today’s life cycle is supposed to look like. The wunderkind myth creates the panicky feeling that by thirty there should at least be clear indications about what your great achievement should be like, and that by forty you should understand that what you haven’t achieved by now, you will no longer achieve. From that moment onward it will only be downward.
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Strenger, C. (2011). Paring Down Life to the Essentials. In: The Fear of Insignificance. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117662_7
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