Enjoy your life. Just because some choose to do things at an early age, doesn't mean you should.

Just take a look at child star actors, and how they turn out in later life!

I'm pretty sure you can extend that range upwards quite a bit. People like Patrick (Collisson) and Jessica are really inspirational, I'd like my kids to look at them rather than at popstar 'x' as role models.

It's great to see young people achieving this much.

Perhaps I'm just weird, but the main feeling I have for people who achieve 'success' at a very early age is sadness. What sort of life are they going to have... The sort enjoyed by child actors? :/

(I'm not talking about anyone in particular, just in generalities).

I'm the opposite, not sad but happy. People that achieve success at an early age, assuming they're not doing it to satisfy the pressure from some parent or family member but simply because of their own desire to achieve something and / or change the world are absolutely great.

All that PG and company can do for people like this is open the doors for them and give them some monopoly money, they have to do all the legwork and make it happen.

I wouldn't compare this with 'child actors' or 'virtuoso musicians' at the ripe old age of 5, hardly any of them chose for that. But someone that's 20, that's a different story. They presumably do this because they want to.

Just give them all the tools they need and get out of their way.

And to call this a 'success' already is a bit early I think, there is a misconception that when you have received an investment that you already have a success. That remains to be seen, but there is a substantial chance of success and there is a person that wants to achieve that success.

Time will tell if it works out.

Jefferson was 33 when he drafted the declaration of independence, he had made many achivements before than and he would continue to achieve many things for the rest of his life.

I don't see why people who achieve success early in life shouldn't go on and achieve even further success later in life, unless there is some fixed amount of success each of us gets.

You're confusing correlation and causation. Because child actors often have troubled lives after they experience success, you look at two elements of the situation (youth and success) and decide those are the ones leading to the trouble. It seems much more likely to me that Hollywood culture is the "secret sauce" here.

It's more than that.

I'm a believer that you learn far more from failure than from success.

In an ideal world, I believe that people should fail a few times before their first success.

Having success early teaches you very little.