Yes, I am asking whether it makes sense to categorise people into strategists whose strategy works all to well up to a certain age, but not after, and vice versa.
There is at least for instance a common conception that jocks get all the rewards untill university, and nerds get all the rewards afterward. I'm asking if mapping reality this way is productive, or just an arbitrary partition.
Not Jocks versus Nerds specifically, but biologically triggered strategies of high risk high reward until you are X years old, and who cares after that, you had your reward already anyway. I feel like a Salmon who was left living on after running the river up and spreading his sperm around.
I have achieved most goals I had, been with (not necessarily among) the best, the brightest, the cutest, the coolest, the weirdest, and the awesomest (people, places, situations, corners of human-mindspace).
Now I'm kind of spinning round and round, and wondering if I survived event X for which I was designed, and now I'm left as the universe is in the joke. Purpose fulfilled. Yet, I live on.
I wonder what your corners of human mindspace were. Just to make sure that you didn't fall into some typical mind/egocentric bias trap. As you are young and at the peak of your physcial ability (not your intellectual or emotional) I wonder whether your experiences all involved competition at the edge. Did you do any of the things in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competent_man? For example did you experience loesickness? The death of a dear one? Raise your own children? Rescue someone from a car accident? Experience major injury?
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.