25 is roughly when you stop being considered "precocious" and stop being judged on potential, instead judged on results. this can be demoralizing. it impacts the highly successful potentially even *more* than normals, because you're surrounded by even more successful peers, in a community where ambition is celebrated, and comparing yourself to them

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ask me how I know 😬 not that I would have ever considered myself "highly successful" tbh