It's better to learn something in your 20s or 30s then say "I should have done that when I was 12" and then never learn anything and become an ignorant 40 year

It's better to learn something in your 20s or 30s then say "I should have done that when I was 12" and then never learn anything and become an ignorant 40 year old! It pains me when people compare themselves to the upper 1% of upwardly mobile people and then lose their self-worth over the whole deal.