David Lat

Have you ever had an experience where, had things turned out just a little bit differently, your entire life would have been transformed?Like a Supreme Court clerkship, a Rhodes Scholarship gets mentioned in your obituary.The door was open just a crack, in a way that seemed to say __ have an __pen door_ policy, but I really don__ want to be bothered.__uccess didn__ take you off the treadmill, but simply put you on a different treadmill, at a higher speed and with a steeper incline.When we__e young, overachieving, and unstoppable, we all think we__e special. But as we grow older, we reach a more realistic understanding of our place in the world. It happens at different times for different people, but eventually we all come to terms with our own ordinariness.