Rich Karlgaard

Late bloomers are those who find their supreme destiny on their own schedule, in their own way.

compare your inside to other people’s outside.

The immense power of normative social influence stems from precisely our need to be accepted. We human beings, after all, are social beings with a strong need to belong to a group, to be accepted, and to have strong social bonds. This means we tend to act like and think like the people in our families, our communities, and our broader society.