What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Reinventing Your Life, with Henry Oliver

Our society tells us over and over that if we're going to achieve anything, we'd better do it while we're young. We fixate on stories of prodigies; we put our children in piano lessons or language classes as toddlers, hoping to give them the best shot at success we can.

As for ourselves, too many people feel it's too late to change the course of their own lives. Whether we are at the start of our careers and sense we're on the wrong path, or feeling unsettled in our late or middle years, we all wonder how we can reinvent ourselves? Is it too late? This book by Henry Oliver has answers. Late bloomers - individuals who experience significant success later in life - offer lessons for people who feel frustrated.

This book encourages people to think about themselves as potential late bloomers and to discover and encourage and advocate for late blooming in others. After all, it's never too late to discover our hidden talents and our accomplish our goals - the road to success is never as straightforward as we are lead to believe. Julia Child didn't discover that she loved to cook until she was thirty-seven. Vera Wang started her design business at forty.

And Michelangelo painted The Last Judgment in his sixties. This inspiring, passionate book combines wonderful story-telling with fascinating new research, to shift expectations around our life trajectories. You'll discover a range of blueprints for self-reinvention, pairing the newest insights from psychology and neuroscience with late bloomers' remarkable life stories.

Henry meets Jack at Ye Olde Chesire Cheese on Fleet Street.

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00:00 "Late Bloomers: Reinventing Life Insights"
04:19 "Championing Late Bloomers in Hiring"
06:42 Uncertain Late Bloomers' Journey
11:13 Ray Kroc's Fast Food Revolution
15:55 Ray Kroc's Relentless Ambition
18:54 Rejecting Cultural Determinism
22:30 Margaret Thatcher: Unlikely Tory Leader
26:02 Thatcher's Meticulous Governing Style
26:47 Thatcher's Attention to Detail
31:43 Tragic Marriage and Its Impact
34:33 Decisive Leadership in Crisis
39:33 "Online Word Exploration Journey"
39:55 "Struggling Poet to Dictionary Legend"
44:24 Unleashing Hidden Potential