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doing notable stuff is not as fulfilling as it may sound ... I have a brother who made tens of millions doing notable (not noble) stuff in business but has otherwise become an empty shell of his former self ... finding inner peace is so much more relevant ...

I'm 28 and I was relieved to read that things may be at their best at ages 40-60. I haven't done anything notable but I'm still learning every day so maybe it will click eventually. At the same time I'm trying to save like I might be unemployable in my 40s.

"Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life… The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t."

I rather be rich than interesting, to be honest...

I'm 28 and I'm upset that I haven't done anything notable yet. I just haven't found my magnum opus yet, and I don't know how to.

The "wunderkinds" aren't the norm. Most people do their best work in their 50s. Even though poetry and mathematics are skewed younger than most disciplines; in those, people tend to peak in the 40s.