Big Breakthroughs Come in Your Late 30s
What the ages of Nobel Prize winners tell us about creativity
by Olga Khazan
Feb 14, 2014
2 minutes
James Murphy, the former frontman of the band LCD Soundsystem, made what he called the biggest mistake of his life at 21, when he turned down a writing job on a sitcom that was about to launch.
The sitcom's name was Seinfeld.
Instead, he lurched around, working as a bouncer and
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