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Success In Your 20s: Comparing Your Life To Others
Everyone has their own path for a reason.
“This guy made $5 million dollars in 2 years and they’re only 21 years old! Check out how he did it.”
At some point, everyone has read a headline like the one above. I see these headlines often and they’re usually written by some marketer trying to sell you an online course. There is nothing wrong with doing well at a young age and speaking on it, but it seems as if people often like to use clickbait titles to make others feel as though they aren’t measuring up to the image of success.
Using buzzwords like “only” followed by someones age could be triggering to those who feel as though everyone else is surpassing them in life. Even worse are those articles saying:
“This person runs a $20 Million dollar company at 28. What are you doing with your life?”
The problem with clickbait titles is they appear to shame people into feeling like they’re not accomplishing great things themselves. It plays into peoples emotions and creates a false reality that someone their age is doing better than they are — which isn’t the case.
