> However, the question I have been struggling with lately has been: how do you pick up something new later on in life? > If you start to learn basket-weaving

> However, the question I have been struggling with lately has been: how do you pick up something new later on in life? > If you start to learn basket-weaving at 40, you are not going to be a great basket-weaver. > If you start programming at 40, you are not going to become Bill Joy or Fabrice Bellard, sorry. (counterexamples in any field welcome) This kind of thinking is pretty much the result of an only performance oriented culture. You don't need to be the greatest of the greatest to enjoy what you're doing or to make something valuable for other people.