If you have been doing something all your life and you enjoy doing it why stop?

If you have been doing something all your life and you enjoy doing it why stop? However, the question I have been struggling with lately has been: how do you pick up something new later on in life? If you start to learn basket-weaving at 40, you are not going to be a great basket-weaver. If you start programming at 40, you are not going to become Bill Joy or Fabrice Bellard, sorry. (counterexamples in any field welcome) Your 10k hours count for much less at 40 than at 15. That guy(Danplan) who started golfing to become a Pro at 28 is slowly starting to find that out despite his progress. So you have to pick your fights very carefully, if you are a chess master you can probably become a decent shogi or go player and vice versa. If you have a solid foundation in math, you can probably do decent physics work at 40. However, and this is what worries me, if your art in grade 5 was dismal, are you going to be able to get decent at 40? That one lady in article sold her first painting at 89, but the question is whether she took up painting late in life or was that just a lucky fluke. (selling != enjoying painting)

Posted by sireat on Oct 24, 2014, 10:26 AM

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