Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.

My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then

Summary

In this quote, the speaker reflects on their early career and the influence it had on them. They mention starting their career at a young age with immense ambition, which eventually led to success. However, they also mention being surrounded by older individuals, which caused them to feel as if they were much older than they actually were. This feeling of being "temporally misplaced" resulted in experiencing a premature midlife crisis, possibly due to the combination of early success and exposure to a more mature crowd.

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By Elizabeth Gilbert

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