The point is that you can't see from the outside. F's life is weird, too, in ways that only F knows and understands. (IDK, maybe he taxidermies mice he catches

The point is that you can't see from the outside. F's life is weird, too, in ways that only F knows and understands. (IDK, maybe he taxidermies mice he catches in his backyard. Point being, we'd never know) The article's not quite reaching that conclusion, but trust me, we're all strange in our own ways. And it's not an artist thing. The "career path" and the "rules and customs" that the article mentions don't actually exist. It's what lives within one or two standard deviations of the average, but... in individual things, we're all far from the average. It just, well, averages out in the long run. To stick with the example: I can name large amounts of FAANG folk who do well, and who never majored in CS, or got that internship, or went to grad school, or started at FAANG. I can name large amounts of folks who followed exactly that path, but either didn't go to FAANG at all, or left quickly. "Normal" is a facade. For all of us. The only thing to keep in mind is that people will complain if you don't keep up the facade (because what does that mean for their choice to keep it, for decades?). But, facade or not, the true average human being has slightly less than two legs. They don't exist.