Early success is often rewarded with leadership roles and enriched learning opportunities, leading to future advantages that are magnified throughout life.
- A report in the Hindustan Times (October 25, 2012)
G. J. Raju's question on Facebook:
Professionally, is it important to peak when young or when older?
My answer:
Jingo... people are innately different... there are early bloomers and there are late bloomers. Having said that, early success does bestow big advantages, because nothing succeeds like success.
Sudhir Singh's comment:
Early success is dangerous too, many cannot handle it easily. Prolonging it becomes even more difficult - more people succumb to the pressures of being constantly in limelight. Success is a relative term, ultimately what counts is inner joy, happiness and peace - this also comes through good health and wealth. Wealth is a vehicle for success not the end in itself.
From a newspaper article on the downfall of Sania Mirza:
... the cocktail of fame and money is more often than not too heady for tender young minds to bear.
Filmmaker Karan Johar in an interview:
Nothing fails like success. And nothing succeeds like failure.
