So You Aren’t A Wunderkind?

I have good news: life isn’t a sprint.

Last week, Forbes dropped its annual 30 Under 30 list. The yearly tradition, to celebrate young people already making waves in culture, entertainment, politics, and more, has run each December since 2011 which, I suppose, technically qualifies the list for inclusion on itself. The names range from those you’d recognize—Miranda Cosgrove or Alphonso Davies, perhaps—and those you wouldn’t, like venture capitalists Brandon Allen and Marcus Stroud. In between, you’ll find writers and rappers, singers and scientists, founders and forwards. With some 400 names on the list (which, at 30 per field, makes the name technically accurate but wildly misleading by several orders of magnitude), you might be forgiven for wondering what it says if you aren’t. After all, if all of these people were able to get their act together enough to make something of themselves, why can’t you?