#long-term-success

#long-term-success

You may have a leg up on the child prodigies who made you feel inadequate as a school kid. Despite outliers like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a new analysis based on 19 studies involving 34,000 high achievers across multiple disciplines - including Nobel laureates, top chess players, Olympic champions, and elite musicians - found that individuals who achieved peak performance early in life were not always the same people to reach high success in adulthood.

"I came in thinking I'd be here for a couple of years, and here I am, 35 years later," she tells Fortune. And while proponents of job hopping might view Godwin's path as complacent, she sees it as resourceful.

"Follow your passion" is a cliché for a reason. Prince told Fischer to "do something because you want to do it, you can't help doing it, you're drawn to it naturally." This mindset compounds over time in terms of knowledge and capabilities.