Things to read this month:

Late Bloomers by Malcolm Gladwell:

Gladwell has recently written a blog in the 'New Yorker' called Late Bloomers in which he talks about the myth that creative genius is only expressed at youth: "Genius, in the popular conception, is inextricably tied up with precocity—doing something truly creative, we're inclined to think, requires the freshness and exuberance and energy of youth. Orson Welles made his masterpiece, "Citizen Kane," at twenty-five. Herman Melville wrote a book a year through his late twenties, culminating, at age thirty-two, with "Moby-Dick." Mozart wrote his breakthrough Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-Flat-Major at the age of twenty-one.(...)

On the other hand you have Alfred Hitchcock, who made "Dial M for Murder," "Rear Window," "To Catch a Thief," "The Trouble with Harry," "Vertigo," "North by Northwest," and "Psycho"—one of the greatest runs by a director in history—between his fifty-fourth and sixty-first birthdays. Mark Twain published "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" at forty-nine. Daniel Defoe wrote "Robinson Crusoe" at fifty-eight."

Very interesting article, there is still hope to be a genius at any age!

Read more at:
http://www.gladwell.com/2008/2008_10_20_a_latebloomers.html